From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 20:52:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB5C16A421; Thu, 24 May 2007 20:52:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-47.apple.com [17.250.248.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D9313C45E; Thu, 24 May 2007 20:52:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from webmail009 (webmail009-s [10.13.128.9]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/smtpout09/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id l4OKpE86013541; Thu, 24 May 2007 13:51:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 13:51:14 -0700 From: Peter Giessel To: Gabor Kovesdan Message-ID: <5EB05AB9-0112-1000-9F8D-FD29EBFCF4FC-Webmail-10016@mac.com> in-reply-to: <4655D19C.8030909@FreeBSD.org> references: <4655D19C.8030909@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 69.178.5.90 Received: from [69.178.5.90] from webmail.mac.com with HTTP; Thu, 24 May 2007 13:51:14 -0700 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: laser printer - which one? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 20:52:01 -0000 On Thursday, May 24, 2007, at 09:58AM, "Gabor Kovesdan" wrote: >- quality (I mean here, that I want to use it for a long time, thus it >should be of good quality and be robust) >- has such a toner, *that can be refilled cheaply* I've found that the price per page doesn't vary that much between printers. Some, but not that much. Its more a matter of how long you can go between replacing the toner. >- prints in good quality, speed and noise is not that important >- should work under FreeBSD / Linux, not just under Windows I've used by Xerox a lot under MacOSX, FreeBSD (using CUPS mostly) and printed maybe 5 pages from Windows... It definitely works with FreeBSD. >As for the price, I'm thinking of 100 000 HUF (about 400 EUR) as *very* >maximum. The price is important, but the first point is more important >at all...I color laser printer would be cool if this amount of money is >sufficient for this, but a BW one is ok, too. I have a Phaser 6300. Xerox includes the .PDD file to make CUPS recognize all its features. Its priced a bit high for your requirements but a Phaser 6180 might be something you are interested in. http://www.office.xerox.com/printers/color-printers/phaser-6180/enus.html