Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:35:46 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Dominic Marks <dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Desktop printing, a request for your experiences Message-ID: <474BBAC2.2070904@daleco.biz> 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. My situation sounds somewhat similar to yours; wifey has a Winbox in the house, and I print through it to an HP 6100 Multifunction machine using apsfilter via SMB/samba. IIRC, apsfilter thinks the machine is an "HP920" and uses the HP-provided 'hpijs' driver and GNU ghostscript. I've had trouble with later versions of Abiword and this setup; possibly also some issues with Acrobat Reader, as well. I've not taken time to work on this for a while, as I usually print from web apps only --- printing is great from Mozilla et al. Kevin D. Kinsey -- Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw
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