Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:00:32 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> To: Dominic Marks <dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Desktop printing, a request for your experiences Message-ID: <474B33F0.5040000@math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <474AD605.7060300@goodforbusiness.co.uk> References: <474AD605.7060300@goodforbusiness.co.uk>
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Dominic Marks wrote: > List, > > 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. > > If you are using this for "real-work" and you are getting good results > please > let me know what you are using (software and hardware ideally). > > The environment I would like to put this into is a family house, very > small > setup with 2 PCs and 2 printers. Currently both are Windows PCs but > one is experiencing all of the classic issues with a multi-year Windows > installation and since they are used exclusively for E-Mail and word > processing I am interested in migrating one PC over to FreeBSD. > > .. If the solution was a Linux distro (box package, or otherwise) I would > also be interested. > ... I am not a subscriber so please keep me CC'ed in the discussion. > > Cheers > Dominic > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" My printing works perfect on all my machines (6 in total) and 2 printers. including printing from applications like Gimp. Printers are HP OfficeJet R60 and HP LaserJet 4L. I used both CUPS and LPD + apsfilter. I prefer LPD+apsfilter in particularly since LPD is included in base distribution. I have not played too much with LPRng+ifhp but I was able to set up basic printing in 30 minutes using that spooling system as well. I noticed that many applications have substandard built in ps filters. CUPS base filter cannot print dvi files :-(. I found a2ps useful for conversion to ps. Cheers, Predrag
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