printer recommendation

Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet printer that
is known to
work under FreeBSD.  I don't mind if it's an older model. 
I'd like to
go cheap with it.

I will be printing black and white planning sheets, and
portions of
books.  

Is there a list of printers that are useable under FreeBSD
somewhere?

Thank you for your time!
cmh
-- 
Christopher M. Hobbs
IS Technician, City of Siloam Springs
chobbssiloamsprings.com, (479).524.5136

On Fri, September 29, 2006 14:03, Christopher M. Hobbs
wrote:

> Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet printer
that is known
> to work under FreeBSD.  I don't mind if it's an older
model.  I'd
> like to go cheap with it.
>
I've got an HP-4050 LaserJet (addin JetDirect) at home that
works
great. At one office, I just installed an HP-1320
(duplexing/built-in
JetDirect) and it works great too.

I ran both of using postscript with lp but have recently
switched to
CUPS without issue.

I've always purchased printers that speak postscript then
configuration and usage is a snap.


-- 
Regards,
Doug

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--- "Christopher M. Hobbs" <chobbssiloamsprings.com>
wrote:

> Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet
> printer that is known to
> work under FreeBSD.  I don't mind if it's an older
> model.  I'd like to
> go cheap with it.
> 
> I will be printing black and white planning sheets,
> and portions of
> books.  
> 
> Is there a list of printers that are useable under
> FreeBSD somewhere?
> 
> Thank you for your time!
> cmh
> -- 
> Christopher M. Hobbs
> IS Technician, City of Siloam Springs
> chobbssiloamsprings.com, (479).524.5136
> 

If the printer works with Linux over the network or
via parallel port, then it probably works fine with
FreeBSD.  If a USB printer works with Linux but not
with FreeBSD, you can often get around the USB
incompatibility by attaching the printer to a print
server.  Here's a searchable database of printers that
are compatible with Linux.

http://
www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi

I have a Oki B4350 printer (mono color laser) and an
HP Photosmart 7150 that are attached to a Hawking
Technology HPS12U print server.  I use CUPS for
printing in FreeBSD.  This setup works great!

Both HP and Okidata have been good about releasing PPD
files (printer configuration files used by CUPS) for
their printers.

It's good that you're only looking for a laser
printer.  I've heard that compatibility issues with
all-in-one printers can be a real pain.

I hope this helps.

Andrew L. Gould
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:03:05PM -0500, Christopher M.
Hobbs wrote:
> Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet printer
that is known to
> work under FreeBSD.  I don't mind if it's an older
model.  I'd like to
> go cheap with it.
> 
> I will be printing black and white planning sheets, and
portions of
> books.  
> 
> Is there a list of printers that are useable under
FreeBSD somewhere?
> 
> Thank you for your time!
> cmh
> -- 
> Christopher M. Hobbs
> IS Technician, City of Siloam Springs
> chobbssiloamsprings.com, (479).524.5136

I'm a fan of the (older) Hewlett Packard printers.  I've got
an 
HP LaserJet 4550 at home that I picked up on eBay, but
that's probably 
overkill for you.

I'd recommend sticking to Postscript printers with network
interfaces.
Be sure to check what maintaining the thing is going to cost
you.

-Damian
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