From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HA6gW-00043q-O1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:38:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0PFbash021990; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:37:36 GMT Received: from localhost.travellingkiwi.com ([161.2.124.82]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0PFWcVQ015911 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:32:38 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.travellingkiwi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C6244312 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:32:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Hamie To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo. Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:32:35 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <45B77C53.7010407@tekproject.com> <200701251037.50727.thomas.kear@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200701251037.50727.thomas.kear@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1467221.67lIx4H3Ys"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200701251532.38184.hamish@travellingkiwi.com> X-Archives-Salt: e7e53300-3671-4324-8742-4ecf36327f7a X-Archives-Hash: 2f9746aa80a7489d78e847abcccc42a8 --nextPart1467221.67lIx4H3Ys Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:37, Thomas Kear wrote: > Well I've grown quite attached to my low-cost laser, an HP LaserJet 1022. > 19ppm black on A4, 20ppm on letter, 1200x600 or 600x600dpi. They could > have been a bit more generous than the 8MB of ram they gave this model, b= ut > it doesn't present a problem in anything but extreme images (which you > wouldn't be printing on a B&W laser printer of this price anyway). > No problems connecting via USB (HP even include a USB cable, not a common > thing nowadays), for a small amount more money the 1022n comes with inbui= lt > ethernet. Mine is attached to an external JetDirect which seems to work > fine as well. > > More info from linuxprinting.org: > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=3DHP-LaserJet_1022 > > I recommend the 1022 over the slightly cheaper 1020 (suggested by another > user) due to not requiring boot-time firmware loading, one less thing to > worry about. > > By the looks you should be able to make one yours for under USD$200. > Damn, that's a good price...=20 I have a LaserJet 2600N (Network connected), which works like a charm. It=20 needed a custom config file from the net somewhere, but it's a cracker apar= t=20 from that (Except the envelope feed. You have to remove the paper to feed a= n=20 envelope else you get a piece of paper infront of the envelope & the printi= ng=20 goes on the paper instead. I also have a PSC1210. All-in-one job. I've had one problem with that under= an=20 older kernel that wouldn't create the device nodes properly (Umm... Fro=20 memory the nodes were there, but you couldn't write to them). H --nextPart1467221.67lIx4H3Ys Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFuM2W/3QXwQQkZYwRAr5qAKCr89YT6wvoX5E2tSWAIxFs48HaKgCfUaZU V1ohqHBK6VTSqGN0eL0RU3w= =8Odu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1467221.67lIx4H3Ys-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list