Date: 13 Jul 2001 21:04:23 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: High-quality printer advice needed Message-ID: <871ynkl108.fsf@pooh.int>
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My wife's recent fork()'ing has resulted in a wealth of digital pictures on my trusty fileserver. Said wife has also made it painfully clear that I *will* find a way to print those pictures, *or else*. I'm currently using a cheap Epson Color Stylus 400, but it just isn't anywhere near the quality we'd like to have, so we'd like to upgrade our printer. I certainly can't say that cost is no object, but we're willing to spend a fair amount to get a solid machine that can turn the images of our newest daemon into printouts suitable for framing or doling out to family. I'm all too well familiar with digging through the FreeBSD printer compatibility lists (specifically, the ones for Ghostscript), so although I find that process incredibly annoying, I won't pester anyone about that. 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. Specifically, I want a printer that can give the absolute highest-quality photo printouts that I can get under Unix-stlye systems for less than, say, $600 dollars. I know that there are some nice deals out there for Windows users, but I want something that *I* can get good results from without installing the dreaded OS. I'm assuming that Postscript is still a nice added feature, but I've had good luck with the apsfilter package on a non-PS Epson, so it's not critical. Ethernet connectivity would be cool, but once again, I've made it this far without it. Also, while I have no problems with digging into manuals to configure the thing, I am not and will never be a graphic genius, so a fair amount of `plug-and-play' functionality would be sincerely appreciated. How 'bout it, folks? Have you ever seen a Unix system rendering beautiful images to a nice color printer? If so, please feel free to give me your biased (and not-so-humble) opinion. -- Kirk Strauser To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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