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From: david@donald.concordia.ca (David Gaudine)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HP 855/850 verses Cannon 610e
Date: 4 Oct 1995 22:26:38 GMT
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In article <44nhif$5ct@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>,
Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Larry Snyder (larry@seminole.iag.net) wrote:
>: I'm considering a Inkjet printer - and can't decide between
>: the HP855/850 or the Cannon 610e.  I use Windows95, FreeBSD
>: and Linux.  Which are specifcally support and not supported
>: under Linux/FreeBSD?
>
>
>Support for printers is via ghostscript (in my book) and I don't think
>it supports either of these printers.  I can however recommend the
>HP500C - it works for me !

I don't recall what version of Ghostscript comes with Slackware etc., but
if you get gs 3.33 sources and compile then the bjc600 is supported.
I assume that the bjc600 driver can handle the bjc610e.  However,
a better driver has been tested and should be included in the next version
of gs.