[Eug-lug] Printer Question

[Allen Brown]

larry price wrote:
> 1. any network printer (drawback $$$)
> 
> 2. any native postscript printer (again $$)
> 
> 3. Anything listed in here http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
> ( much cheaper but more time consuming)
> 
> One alternative is to buy a dedicated print server
>  n < $100  
> Netgear makes one that includes a 4-port switch and firewall,
> D-link makes about 4 different models,
> and there's probably a bunch of off-brand manufacturers as well.
> (realistically that's $35.00 USD worth of electronics that should have
> been in the printer in the first place but Oh well)

That won't help with sleek.  It would require the print server
to run windoze so it can run the proprietary driver.

The HP Deskjet 985Cxi works.  Spendy.
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Allen Brown
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> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:16:26 +0000, Jeff Newton <newton at efn.org> wrote:
> 
>>Well, than I'll ask this question - CAN someone please recommend a
>>printer that I can work with, instead of a paper weight??
>>
>>
>>Allen Brown wrote:
>>
>>>>Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>Many of the low end printers (including ones from HP) are "sleek".
>>>That means they have no (or little) on-board intelligence.  They
>>>depend on the host computer to do most of the work of the printer.
>>>
>>>There are two problems with this.  First of all, it slows down your
>>>computer.  But more serious for us in the Open Source world is that
>>>these printers are generally not released with drivers for open
>>>source.  That means that they are just large paper weights.
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