New printer
Finally got around to buying a new printer at the weekend: an HP Deskjet 5740.
There's nothing particularly spectacular about the printer, it's just a
generic cheap inkjet which takes overpriced cartridges. The really shocking
thing is the software. Not only do HP provide Linux (and thus FreeBSD)
drivers
for it (and loads of other Deskjet models) but these are available as source
code under a BSD-style license. Even better, the driver is designed to just
work with Ghostscript (without recompilation of Ghostscript, it has a mode in
which it fires up the HP driver on a bi-directional pipe and squirts its
rasterised image at it and gets PCL commands in return) so I can use it with
my existing lpd setup and so don't have to frig around with CUPS or a custom
lp driver.
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