Subject: Re: printer recommendations
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: David Huang <dave@azeotrope.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/30/2008 22:17:58
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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