looking for reliable USB printer
Just wanted to know what people currently use for an usb printer under OpenBSD. I'm looking for rather cheap hardware that's currently sold in europe as brand new, and guaranteed to work (through experience) by people...
Re: looking for reliable USB printer
On 10/1/05, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just wanted to know what people currently use for an usb printer under > OpenBSD. I'm looking for rather cheap hardware that's currently sold > in europe as brand new, and guaranteed to work (through experience) > by people... Last year I bought a HP Deskjet 3820, but I don't think it is really a current model anymore. It has USB as well as a parallel port Because I don't use color I take advantage of the PCL support of the printer and simply configure it as a Laserjet. I use apsfilter . With "hpijs" it also prints color. =Adriaan=
Re: looking for reliable USB printer
Hi, On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 12:05:39AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > Just wanted to know what people currently use for an usb printer under > OpenBSD. I'm looking for rather cheap hardware that's currently sold > in europe as brand new, and guaranteed to work (through experience) > by people... I bought a Kyocera FS-1010 in July 2004 for 249,- EUR. Probably one of the cheapest black&white Laser Printers having native PostScript (actually KPDL2, Kyoceras PostScript dialect). Works flawlessly up to now. Plug in and print. The only thing you have to do once is switch it to PostScript mode (standard mode is PCL) by echoing the proper control sequence to /dev/ulpt*. Control sequences and settings are quite well documented in pdf files on the accompanying CD. Cartridges are relatively cheap, as the drums aren't integrated (the printer has permanent drums). Thus per page costs are said to be quite low, though I have no own calculations available. Regards, Daniel
Re: looking for reliable USB printer
Marc, On 05/10/2005, at 5:39 AM, Daniel Martini wrote: I bought a Kyocera FS-1010 in July 2004 for 249,- EUR. Probably one of the cheapest black&white Laser Printers having native PostScript (actually KPDL2, Kyoceras PostScript dialect). Works flawlessly up to now. Plug in I know you are looking for USB, however if you are avoiding printers with a network connection because they tend to be expensive, then... I have not tried the USB functionality, however I have a Kyocera FS-1020DN. My FS-1020DN also does postscript (in the printer), plus duplex, came with an internal 10/100 print server and does 20 A4 ppm. I have always just printed through the network. The duplex functionality half ejects the paper and brings it back through the printer, so the speed is more than halved when doing duplex printing. It is not a dodgy GDI "Win printer". It seems cheap to me considering these features. Doing a quick search, I find these brand new at around $630 Australian and 450 Euros at French stores. Shane J Pearson