Hi Isaac, this is a good start: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting
In the 'printer' section you find a ranking and evaluation how the printers do on unixoid systems. Cheers herbs mount -t wbush /dev/whitehouse /dev/nul On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:12:52 -0400 "Isaac Mushinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My 10-year-old deskjet being out of ink and probably not worth a replacement > cartridge (it works, but makes some mechanical noise lately), I am > considering a reasonable replacement, preferably with scanning/copy > possibilities. > > I tried to get Photosmart C4280, but while I was trying a faulty printcap on > it, it lost its mind permanently (says 'incompatible print cartridges', and > does not respond to the button combinations that HP support thinks should > reset it). Besides, you can either attach it as ulpt or uscanner device, or > play with hplip drivers as a generic device, but it seems too > confusing. It was a waste of time and money for me and I am going to return > it. > > Requirements: > 1. Reasonable physical size (should not be much larger than the old > deskjet). > 2. Either network/lpd or USB, scanner should be well supported by sane. If > used via USB, it should be a compound device (i.e. printer, scanner and, if > there, the umass device should appear as separate devices to avoid > kld-loading and unloading modules). I heard Epsons show up as compound > devices? any HP laserjets? > 3. Reasonable maintenance cost (maybe a laser printer, I do not care for > color printing that much). > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
