looking for reliable USB printer

[Marc Espie]

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

[Adriaan Misc]

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

[Daniel Martini]

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

[Shane J Pearson]

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