Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 20:28:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: Printer advice Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1705211951080.2170@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20170516062449.a80c020072832c36a0c906a3@sohara.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1705131813110.49571@tripel.monochrome.org> <E0.B4.25473.5EF08195@dnvrco-omsmta03> <20170514171907.180a99c2.freebsd@edvax.de> <9fabe602-3f0b-0241-0f49-fb0c0fb27268@bananmonarki.se> <4f51c091-0896-22f9-dbf4-6210dac45853@yahoo.com> <20170515195054.3a97b56ccbbb246888be2d24@sohara.org> <20170515224907.76efed1e@gumby.homeunix.com> <20170516062449.a80c020072832c36a0c906a3@sohara.org>
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Just to conclude this... I did end up buying the HP M553. Like its predecessor, it's a color laser printer made by HP. It seems that some advances have been made since 2001. The only issue was that I had to change one thing in /etc/printcap - :lp= had to become :lp=9100@snowball (snowball being the printer's hostname). No need for CUPS or ghostscript or filters or anything of the kind. I can `lpr some_text_file` or `lpr some_file.pdf` with impunity, which is all I was looking for. It also prints fine from gnumeric's Print dialog box. After overcoming the printcap thing, I must say I'm pretty much delighted with this printer. It's a little smaller than, and about half the weight of, the 4550. And it is BLAZING fast. From a standby or sleep state, the first page is out in under 10 seconds, compared to a mimute or more with the 4500. I might change my tune when it comes time to buy toner, but for now it's great. Thanks to all who replied. PS: weight-wise, the M553 is 27kg. The old 4550 was 50kg, and, if you'll pardon my French, was a cast-iron bitch to get out the door. On Tue, 16 May 2017, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2017 22:49:07 +0100 > RW via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, 15 May 2017 19:50:54 +0100 >> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >> >>> I got the Brother binary drivers working easily enough by >>> running CUPS in a Centos userland in a jail. >> >> Whats the advantage of that over using Linux CUPS under >> the ordinary /usr/compat/linux/ Centos install? > > The install scripts work in a jail, using compat you would have to > put everything in place by hand so you might as well use FreeBSD CUPS. > > -- > Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging </> ]
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