Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:14:25 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS and Epson Epson WF-3540 on FreeBSD 9.2/11.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <1383686065.20319.43457061.419768E8@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <F2467CDD-B2DA-4778-A4F9-CF212DD47874@mac.com> References: <20131102115534.71afaa03@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> <1383669454.21378.43329325.475E1FD0@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20131105205801.13be6358@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> <F2467CDD-B2DA-4778-A4F9-CF212DD47874@mac.com>
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On Tue, Nov 5, 2013, at 14:12, Charles Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Nov 5, 2013, at 11:58 AM, O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> > wrote: > >> I don't think it's likely you'll find this working. I'd suggest you > >> find a printer that can natively speak postscript and works with SANE > >> without a proprietary driver. It's getting hard to find printers that > >> can do this, though. > > > > A pity. > > I think it is hard to find an ink-jet printer that "speaks" natively > > PS. Mots of them I saw have their proprietary BLOB driver managing the > > communication if they are multi-function-systems - mostly Linux. > > It costs money to license a real PostScript interpreter from Adobe, which > means that the cheaper inkjets won't pony up for that capability. > > It looks like the Lexmark Pro4000 and the HP OfficeJet 276dw are sanely > priced > PostScript-capable inkjets, but there are literally hundreds of laser > printers > around which have native PostScript support, and their cost-per-page > usually > is much more reasonable than inkjets end up being. > Not to mention the new fancy thing are LED printers which are superceding laser printers. I didn't even know they existed until recently.
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