[KLUG Members] Printer recommendation?

[Peter Buxton]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:23:06AM -0400, Bryan-TheBS-Smith was only 
   escaped alone to tell thee:

> Kevin DeGraaf wrote:
> > I've spent a good deal of time wrestling with a donated Epson inkjet, and
> > I've rapidly become sick to death of sloppy, half-assed drivers and the
> > plethora of poorly-documented printing systems out there (LPR, LPRng,
> > CUPS, gs, etc.).

Once I figured out how to use LPRng, the HP 5n works great. It took a while,
but it now works great.

> Actually, I find LPR/LPRng is _well_documented_ and
> _very_powerful_.  You just have to know how to wield them.  And
> setup from the "printtool" GUI in distros like RedHat make it cake.

Unfortunately, you are at the mercy of printtool at that point. :)

As for PostScript: the HP uses PCL, which is evidentally well documented. So
much so that stock lpr could channel raw Wintel to it successfully. An HP
inkjet using PCL would work great.

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