Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:24:40 +0100 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Dominic Marks <dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Desktop printing, a request for your experiences Message-ID: <20071126162440.123800ad@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <474AD605.7060300@goodforbusiness.co.uk> References: <474AD605.7060300@goodforbusiness.co.uk>
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:19:49 +0000 Dominic Marks <dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> wrote: > Can anyone give me their experiences of desktop printing > (OpenOffice/KDE/Gnome/Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, etc) recently? > I haven't tried for a while but it was a pain to setup and maintain > the last time I looked at it. I'm using an HP 1320 (PostScript printer) + cups to do printing. It works like a charm when it is attached with a parallel cable; OTOH I was never able to print via USB to that beast (no joy with print/hplip etc...) from FreeBSD (even though it works under XP and on most Linux distros). Here, OpenOffice generates the best printing; but all Qt3-based printing shows bad kerning artifacts, the letters being not evenly spaced -- I don't know if it is fixed in Qt4. Printing from Firefox is okay for some sites that took corrective measures in their printing stylesheets to counteract FF css/printing bugs, on other sites it is often quite ugly (compared to MSIE, which does a much better job at printing whatever you throw at it). All in all, YMMV. It depends on your requirements. > .. If the solution was a Linux distro (box package, or otherwise) I > would also be interested. Well, disregarding the problem of not being able to talk to my HP-1320 via USB (instead of parallel), all other problems are not FreeBSD-specific; they show up in Linux distros as well. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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