[H-GEN] Printer advice wanted

[Hilton Travis]

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Hi Greg,

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 17:09, Greg Black wrote:

> I've been a PostScript black & white laser printer user for
> ever, but my wife wants to be able to print colour brochures and
> family photos -- so we need a cheapish colour inkjet printer and
> it has to work with standard free Unix tools on random FreeBSD
> hosts.  This probably means no USB, as I have no way of finding
> out if the FreeBSD USB stuff works before I get the printer, but
> it also means I need something that will work with ghostscript.

There are a number of cheapish color laser printers now available,
however I don't know (or expect) that they'd have postscript support on
the cheaper devices.

> I can't understand how to match the ghostscript devices with the
> printers I can find in the shops.  I'm sort of interested in
> things like the Epson C61 at $179 or the HP Deskjet 5652 at
> $299; but I'm happy to look at other brands and other prices in
> the general range.

I have a C61 here, but don't ghostscript to it - its attached to a Samba
server, and I use CUPS to print to it.  Postscript is something that
I've never personally used, but that I'd like to play with given the
time.

> If anybody knows anything about this, I'd love to hear from
> you.  Feel free to reply direct to me rather than the list.  I
> was looking at the display at OfficeWorks, but am also happy to
> be redirected to other sources so long as they're between the
> city and Indooroopilly.

I wouldn't mind hearing the replies, either.

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