Re: printer recommendations

[David Huang <dave%azeotrope.org@localhost>]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> My network printer (an HP 2605DN) works _okay_ with my LPRng  
> server ... but
> it has vague problems with it, and getting things like plain text  
> printing
> to work seems to require some additional bits that I haven't yet  
> figured
> out.  But sadly this printer seems to be slightly buggy enough that it
> has a number of annoyances with LPRng, and I think that to make it  
> work better
> I will need the extra smarts that CUPS provides.  I appreciate all of
> the input!


What problems have you had with the 2605dn? I have one too, which I  
print to using CUPS (although I don't print very much from NetBSD... I  
do print more from Mac OS X though, which also uses CUPS), and haven't  
run into any problems. I do have a minor annoyance when printing to it  
from Windows (using a "Standard TCP/IP Port" on port 9100)-- 
occasionally, the printer seems to quit responding to SNMP packets,  
which makes Windows think the printer is offline. I have to power  
cycle the printer to get it working again.
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