Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:42:07 -0500 From: "Norman C. Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: Rod <rod@predictivedialers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HP 4500 laser printer (plain or 4500N) will it work? Message-ID: <19990221224206.A17034@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990221150924.29728D-100000@ip70.net20483206.cr.sk.ca>; from Rod on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 03:20:14PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990221150924.29728D-100000@ip70.net20483206.cr.sk.ca>
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On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 03:20:14PM -0600, Rod wrote: > Hi everyone! > > For the company I work for (I got them to switch to FreeBSD, a win for > us!) we have decided we need a workgroup colour laser printer. > > After looking at what's out there that fits in our budget The HP 4500 > is our only choice. > > However, I have read in Usenet that FreeBSD 3.0 does not support Parallel > ECP(forgive my terminonlogy) bidirectional printers. (the 4500 has an ECP > parallel port) > > If that is accurate I was thinking I would connect the printer as a > network printer and talk to it through tcp/ip. Which would be the HP 4500N > model-- a little more expensive but worth it if I knew it would work. We have HP 5M and 5M color laser printers connected to FreeBSD via 10Base-T Ethernet. IMO, The performance gain over a parallel interface is well worth the extra dollars! The HP laser printers have worked great -- even the ones located 2,700 miles away at another facility. Several people complained about the "fumes" from the HP 5M color laser printers giving them headaches, which is another very good reason to use the Ethernet connection -- locating the printers far enough from users is trivial with Ethernet. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > Could someone give me some guidence? If I can't use FreeBSD I could put > it on a windoze machine but that is not desirable. Worse, the new boss is > really pushing that we switch to Red Hat as he feels it will support more > equipment. > > Thank you for your comments! > > Rod To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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