I have had good luck on OpenBSD with a variety of HP printers using the hplip package and cups. (To use the latter, put /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in your PATH to avoid confusion with lpr programs.) The xsane package does scanning on HP printers that have this function. I have connected them mainly via the network, but I don't see why direct usb connections wouldn't work as well.
Dave Raymond On 2/5/20, Claus Assmann <ca+openbsd_m...@esmtp.org> wrote: > I need to buy a printer to connect to one of my OpenBSD machines > and I prefer a USB connection (as I don't control the network at > my current place). Can I just buy any USB printer or are there > printers which do not work with OpenBSD? If so, what do I need > to check / avoid? > > Any suggestion for something "cheap" (to print just a few documents > as needed)? I never had to buy a printer before, so I'm not familiar > with this area -- if possible I would like to get a printer/scanner > but I have no idea what I can buy locally :-( > A HP laserjet (which was a gift but broke today) worked only with > one of my OpenBSD machines which seemingly was related to the USB > HW, using a printcap entry like this: > usb:lp=/dev/ulpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/usb:sf:sh:tr=^D: > > -- > Address is valid for this mailing list only, please do not reply > to it direcly, but to the list. > > -- David J. Raymond david.raym...@nmt.edu http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond
