From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 5 21:14:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166FCD0A for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 21:14:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DEF212780 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 21:14:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB8121D6F for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:14:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:14:25 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject:date:in-reply-to :references; s=smtpout; bh=5klqTQuHXW4PvBeJuHDAuV7h6Ac=; b=q3eWB g0srifzeMrfcFTtc6d2W7g7vvBPSDw3SZhiSSmKhwh7HdDcfD5v4ZXveucUcLJP7 GkUI1fUO27qFGv0AUpZxRDkI99w7D15RIldKGhzLf0TeOsxs4AaxGr1I+TDivrwQ osv8eO1D7D3MqXQIDWx9Ult77UxMrUuvziLuUI= Received: by web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id 1B1F711184C; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:14:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1383686065.20319.43457061.419768E8@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: HmBM+4y+dp2LgNFgtSLgKILjDmwsvZhKMKittQhDzyj6 1383686065 From: Mark Felder To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-d4893488 Subject: Re: CUPS and Epson Epson WF-3540 on FreeBSD 9.2/11.0-CURRENT Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:14:25 -0600 In-Reply-To: References: <20131102115534.71afaa03@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> <1383669454.21378.43329325.475E1FD0@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20131105205801.13be6358@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 21:14:27 -0000 On Tue, Nov 5, 2013, at 14:12, Charles Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Nov 5, 2013, at 11:58 AM, O. Hartmann > 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.