I've always been happy with the cheap Brother laser printers with ethernet, even with just their version of Postscript. But I believe they still sell Postscript printers, too.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:07 AM Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > Hi Carson, > > Carson Chittom wrote on Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 09:51:45AM -0500: > > Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> writes: > > >> Can people please recommend a home laser printer > >> that is known to work well with OpenBSD? > >> > >> I would like to avoid cups, and possibly a2ps > >> and foo* and if= and all that dance > >> - a printer that speaks postscript and is as easy as > >> lp:lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: > > > HP at least used to (and I assume still do) make several decent > > printers that spoke Postscript. > > That answer used to be spot on until about the year 2000. After > that, quality of HP laser printers went down the drain very rapidly. > One office i worked in decided in 2003 that the then more then five > year old HP LaserJet might die from old age soon and bought a new > one to be safe and not experience service disruption. The old one > was left running, too, because why not, and printing traffic was > shared about evenly between the two because people tended to use > the one closest to their desk. > > When the *successor* of the new one died from old age about six to > eight years later (i.e. when two of the new ones had worn out one > after the other, don't remember how long they lasted exactly, but > not longer than three or four years i think), the old one was still > going strong. If i remember correctly, when the pre-2000 one finally > did die from old age, it was probably fifteen years old, if not > more, with continuous office use. > > I doubt HP printers have become better again, but i'm not sure. > > > In particular, I've used the > > CP1525nw in the past with OpenBSD. Haven't tried it in a couple > > years, though; none of my OpenBSD machines need to print, these > > days. > > Same here. Currently, a Kyocera P2135dn is sitting on the desk here, > but i can't say whether it is good because i'm printing so little. > > To the OP, what matters is a decent PostScript Processor > and a RJ45 Ethernet connector, then it will work with OpenBSD > no matter what. > > Yours, > Ingo > >
