On 9/17/20 3:15 PM, Greg Thomas wrote:
I've always been happy with the cheap Brother laser printers with ethernet,
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:07 AM Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote:
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.
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.
Brother - 7 years internal plastic piece broke,
could have fixed it but complete disassembly didn't seem worth it
Canon - 2 years (replaced, didn't fail)
HP M402n - 2 1/2 years 0 problems expensive cartridges
Still running. Relatively low usage - +-4000 pages.
HP printers seem to come in at least 2 grades.
All worked with lpr & postscript without problems.
Whatever you get be -sure- to configure pf
so it can't call home! Turn off wireless as
well if you don't need it.
Big security holes.
Geoff Steckel
