Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:39:37 -0500, robert perry wrote: In the past, I remember visiting certain websites that provided links to drivers but have forgotten the address. Could someone refresh my memory or provide an address that could help? Maybe you're thinking about linuxprinting.org which provides PPD device descriptions that can be incorporated in CUPS which has become the de-facto standard for printing? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers
On 01/26/12 05:39, robert perry wrote: I intend to purchase a multifunction printer (including fax, scanner, copier) and return to utilizing the BSD operating systems. Early research indicates that few printer manufacturers formally support the FreeBSD or Unix operating systems but imply that drivers may still be available elsewhere. In the past, I remember visiting certain websites that provided links to drivers but have forgotten the address. Could someone refresh my memory or provide an address that could help? Maybe try openprint.org? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers
robert perry rperry1...@verizon.net wrote; I intend to purchase a multifunction printer (including fax, scanner, copier) and return to utilizing the BSD operating systems. Early research indicates that few printer manufacturers formally support the FreeBSD or Unix operating systems but imply that drivers may still be available elsewhere. In the past, I remember visiting certain websites that provided links to drivers but have forgotten the address. Could someone refresh my memory or provide an address that could help? I take it you don't mean; http://www.google.com For the 'printer' side, look for something that supports a 'standard' printer _language_ -- preferably PostScript -- over a serial or parallel port, or the 'lpr/lpd' protocol over a network connection. *OR* look at the (limited!) list of 'winrinters' directly supported by Ghostscript. For faxing, look for something tht is 'Class2.0' (aka EIA/TIA 592) compliant. any standard fax software -- like 'hylafax' - will talk to it. For scanning, see the manpage for SANE(7). also www.sane-project.org The higher-end Brother MFP units pretty much work 'out of the box', for everything except scanning. Brother provides scanner driver binaries for SANE on Linux, and source-code for the adventurous. A quick persual indicates that a number of *nix varients are supported, including several *BSD varients (FreeBSD is not explicitly mentioned, unfortunately) It does not look like it would require 'linuxemulator' compilation. A quick attempt at './configure' indicated a need for some tweaking of pathnames or file location. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers
- Original Message - From: robert perry rperry1...@verizon.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:39 PM Subject: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers I intend to purchase a multifunction printer (including fax, scanner, copier) and return to utilizing the BSD operating systems. Early research indicates that few printer manufacturers formally support the FreeBSD or Unix operating systems but imply that drivers may still be available elsewhere. In the past, I remember visiting certain websites that provided links to drivers but have forgotten the address. Could someone refresh my memory or provide an address that could help? === From Robert Bonomi: For the 'printer' side, look for something that supports a 'standard' printer _language_ -- preferably PostScript -- over a serial or parallel port, or the 'lpr/lpd' protocol over a network connection. *OR* look at the (limited!) list of 'winrinters' directly supported by Ghostscript. For faxing, look for something tht is 'Class2.0' (aka EIA/TIA 592) compliant. any standard fax software -- like 'hylafax' - will talk to it. For scanning, see the manpage for SANE(7). also www.sane-project.org The higher-end Brother MFP units pretty much work 'out of the box', for everything except scanning. Brother provides scanner driver binaries for SANE on Linux, and source-code for the adventurous. A quick persual indicates that a number of *nix varients are supported, including several *BSD varients (FreeBSD is not explicitly mentioned, unfortunately) It does not look like it would require 'linuxemulator' compilation. A quick attempt at './configure' indicated a need for some tweaking of pathnames or file location. = From Polytropon: Maybe you're thinking about linuxprinting.org which provides PPD device descriptions that can be incorporated in CUPS which has become the de-facto standard for printing? = From Da Rock: Maybe try openprint.org? Thank you all for your suggestions. I was able to review each and I think they'll be helpful. I almost forgot how much fun this could be. Bob Perry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, robert perry wrote: = From Da Rock: Maybe try openprint.org? Thank you all for your suggestions. I was able to review each and I think they'll be helpful. I almost forgot how much fun this could be. That should be http://www.openprinting.org/printers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
