On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:37:03 +0100 (CET) S.P. van Noort wrote: >I want to buy a (not to expensive color) printer which will be used on a >Linux-only-box, and I wonder of any of you has some good ideas about it.
>I've looked around, among others at >www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi, but as far as I can see the >only printer that is sold in The Netherlands which works perfectly is the >HP 610C . But for 30 US$ more, I have a HP 710 C which should print two >times faster. But according to the webpage you need a special program >pbm2ppa and you can't print plain text. This problem is with almost all >the printers. What does this mean, that everything in ASCII you want to >print is automaticaly converted to DVI/PS and you won't notice the >difference, except that cat file > /dev/lp1 maybe doesn't work? The enscript program is used to convert text to postscript. I have a HP 720 at home, and I have not been satisfied with it in Linux (works fine in Win98) >The printers I've seen here in Holland are, a.o. >HP 610, 710, 720, 815, 840, 880 >Epson 460, 660, 760 >Canon 2000, 3000, 6100 >I can't find any of the printers in magicfilter and apsfilter. I have a HP 812 at work that works great with the HP 882 magicfilter (should also work with the 810, 815, 880, and maybe the 840.) I don't know about the HP 610. You may check into closely-named printers for the Epson and Canon printers, sometimes the difference is whether they support USB for Macintosh, etc. >Then another question, someone will come here with a laptop and want to >take files from my Linux-box to his windows98-laptop. Does someone know a >good webpage/HOWTO how to do that, according to what I've seen it's >done with a null-modem. I don't have time to Trial & Error >with the laptop, so a specific HOWTO would be appreciated. As far as I >found out it should be something with pppd with the option local. Sorry, I can't help you there. -- Bruce Mobarry EP 406 University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83844 (208)885-7551
