Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 00:50:19 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CUPS and Epson Epson WF-3540 on FreeBSD 9.2/11.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <20131106005019.6b4514f8@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20131105212838.GA68966@slackbox.erewhon.net> References: <20131102115534.71afaa03@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> <1383669454.21378.43329325.475E1FD0@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20131105205801.13be6358@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> <20131105212838.GA68966@slackbox.erewhon.net>
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--Sig_/Lv2TPlyZwhFXeRIwgpek.6u Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 22:28:38 +0100 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:58:01PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 10:37:34 -0600 > > Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >=20 > > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > While PostScript is probably the best choice, if the printer speaks > PCL you can probably get it to work. When in doubt, check the > openprinting database [http://www.openprinting.org/printers]. There are only a few ink jet printers that support PostScript and they have been benchmarked not very positive (expensive, high cost-per-page relation et cetera). I also looked at openprinting.org for those printers I put into the circle of choices.=20 >=20 > If you see a printer that is described as "host-based", avoid it like > the plague! This means they ripped all the smarts (such as it is, and > what there is of it) out of a printer and put it in the usually > windows-only driver. :-( yes, those "dead silicon" plastique printers are not very flexible and I avoid them like the plaque. ;-) >=20 > Roland Oliver --Sig_/Lv2TPlyZwhFXeRIwgpek.6u Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSeYQ7AAoJEOgBcD7A/5N82RcH/0YCw87DzSOjOx569JkAeps4 rJQ4vLqpZ5cyesxgDo3jXEymC5fxv2ePL1jK+QUmc5Yfa9umeHkzBUZesM5TozJc sCilKnMacp+mtqTfTKlyPbhT6vW83v92v5y8E58D+d/I7ez0nooLdwCDwN1sTWlQ TTkImbdlhiHYsaI9ZOVBzNS9vvIPtZK9xFvyI4DDQfKY6nmoPIyH9P0pI//0aeQ8 25p2YGT11vPYmoXu/1TkavA0aeXIrULk+rGDbT/aWoZlKNAk27owbMSqBuzu/eJN XxCxPPbHKHFP6MWyl0ZMjEmwiu0/z5iLZt7XlUsI2FUDnQ/XvQ6m7GDzXHhIFNA= =yMcr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Lv2TPlyZwhFXeRIwgpek.6u--
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