in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Louis LeBlanc thusly... > > Some newer Lexmark printers do support standard protocols, but I > went and spent $80 for a Lexmark color printer several years ago > that spent more time working as a doorstop than a printer. They > used - and still do for some printers - proprietary protocols, and > release their own drivers - you guessed it - for Windows only. > And sometimes not even for all versions of Windows. My one > Windows system was NT, and it wasn't supported. At the time, I > was a Linux user, and even the reverse engineered Linux drivers > weren't able to get it working.
Lest somebody gets the wrong idea that all Lexmark printers behave as descried above, my Optra E310 laser printer -- US$[23]00, 199[89] -- is still going strong. It worked/works in Windows 9[58], Me, XP. It of course just works, like a PS printer, in FreeBSD 3.x, 4.x, and sure would in 5.x. > I'll never buy a Lexmark again, and if given one, I'll immediately > put it on EBay or just give it to my front curb. It will be a HP or Lexmark laser printer for me. The one that does double-sided printing cheaply [cw]ould be the deciding factor for me; print-server would be a bonus. Mind that i am interested mainly in sharp and clear black/white text currently. - Parv -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
