I've been using the Brother HL1850 with CUPS for the last 4-5 Years. It came with the ppd on the CD and cranks out 10-20 pages/min 5-10 in duplex mode. All this time it's been running off the parallel port. The hl1870 has a nic.
The only time things get a bit slow is when you throw heavy graphics at it. mario;> On Thursday 08 May 2008 07:40:45 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I have been scouring all the data I can, to find printers that do duplex > > printing (that means doublesided printing). I found 3 models, but two of > > them > > (the HP C7280 and the Canon PIXMA MX850) have no public drivers I can > > find. The > > third, which is the Epson RX680, seems to be supported via drivers from > > Avasys > > (http://avasys.jp/hp/menu000000900/hpg000000859.htm) called PIPS drivers, > > but > > while there is are ports for various versions of PIPS in the print dir of > > ports, > > and I can find that the Avasys site lists supporting the RX680, I have two > > problems: > > > > 1) I can't determine which (if any) of the PIPS ports support the RX680, > > and > > 2) right now, none of them build because of an error you get about a > > linuxwrapper not handling symbol versioning. > > > > Is there any way to rely on any FreeBSD port to be able to use the RX680 > > from > > Epson? > > Have you tried print/gutenprint ? > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
