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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:38:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        Greg Pavelcak <gregpav@mediaone.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: <= US$300 Laser Printers
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009151136390.34240-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <200009151557.JAA28200@nomad.yogotech.com>

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On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Nate Williams wrote:

> > I'm thinking about buying an inexpensive laser printer. By
> > inexpensive, I guess I mean cheaper than the HPs. 
> 
> I picked up a  Xerox DocWriter on egghead.com with 8MB of memory,
> built-in ethernet, and Postscript for <$300.  It's an out-dated model,
> but it works fine for me.
> 
> The only gotcha is you need to install a text-postscript converter
> filter in LPR. :)

	I just open up the file in netscape using a URL of
file:///home/doug/filename, then print from there. Works really well for
short text pages, which is about the only thing I print anyway.

Doug
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