Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 21:57:49 -0800 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printer recommendations? Message-ID: <20101204055748.GA46559@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20101204042952.0ac21e45.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20101203043805.GB8149@comcast.net> <20101203191339.61205ccb.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012031916360.90221@wonkity.com> <20101204042952.0ac21e45.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri 03 Dec 2010 at 19:29:52 PST Polytropon wrote: >On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:26:43 -0700 (MST), Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >> The last time I used parallel on FreeBSD, it was slow...well, slower >> than expected. Haven't really tested USB printers for speed. >> Ethernet is superior in many ways. > >The speed is acceptable, just the "error messages" are annoying, >started with FreeBSD 7, I think. I do feed PCL into the printer >as this is faster than PS, but recent office class printers do >provide good (and FAST!) PS support. An example for a well-designed >internal CPU is the Kyocera FS-3900DN which also supports >different "personalities"; it might be considered "expensive", >but it will pay. My LJ4+ was connected via parallel and I never noticed any problems with error messages or the speed. But I had nothing to benchmark the speed against, so maybe I just didn't know what I was missing. I'm OK with a printer that's as slow as I am. ;)
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