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On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2008-12-06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> After reading through this thread again, doing some online study |
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>> and sending my dad out to find out what he could buy locally he found |
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>> Sam's Club has this HP Color LaserJet for $280 which has specs that |
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>> look pretty good to me: |
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> Color laser printers are great for things like maps, charts, |
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> diagrams, and graphs, but I've never seen one that did a decent |
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> job with photos. [However, itq has been at least a year since |
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> I looked at printers.] So if printing photos is a requirement, |
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> make sure the printer in question does a good enough job for |
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> you. |
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> In my experience, any HP that does postscript will work great |
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> with Linux. You may want to confirm that there's a .ppd file |
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> for that model so that CUPS can take advantage of all the bells |
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> and whistles (e.g. selecting resolution, paper source, |
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> controlling duplexing, etc.). |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Grant |
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Hi Grant, |
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He never does photos so that's not an issue. He seems to want color |
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so his printouts of email look identical to what he sees on the |
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screen. Other than that I think he's really be happied with black & |
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white, but he says he wants color. |
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I'll look around to find out about the .ppd file. I don't know |
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what's in one. Only that when you tell CUPS that you have a printer |
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you can use it. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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