From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 13 23:59:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB8937B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f6E6xQ803858; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Kirk Strauser" , Subject: RE: High-quality printer advice needed Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:59:26 -0700 Message-ID: <000801c10c32$85593a40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <871ynkl108.fsf@pooh.int> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kirk Strauser >Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 7:04 PM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: High-quality printer advice needed > > >What I could use, however, is some good subjective information about finding >a quality printer to attach to my FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE machine, or my home >network for that matter. > >Epson, so it's not critical. Ethernet connectivity would be cool, but once >again, I've made it this far without it. I can't help you with the color printing (I have no use for it myself and I wouldn't trade my HP 4M+ Postscript & duplexer for any other printer) but I can tell you that there are some very cheap hardware print servers out there. Ethernet connectivity is not the unreachable thing it once was. For example you can by a brand new Hawking PN7117 for $124 that is just a bit bigger than a Centronix head and plugs into the printer parallel port and supports LPR and is web manageable. In my case for my own printer I picked up a HP JetDirect from Ebay for $50 that supports LPR and it works great. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message