Hello, [I've just delurked and re-enabled Mail Delivery for this list for a while to ask this question; there's usually too much traffic for me to keep up nowadays, sadly.] I Googled and looked at the archives but there's not much here about printing music notation. I'm needing to buy a printer that will be ideal for score printing and also plays well with Debian/DeMuDi. Since I don't really need colour, I'd prefer a laser printer. I'll stick with black+white A4 for now for cost reasons - I'm looking to spend about 200-300 UK pounds (about $300-500) max. I've not yet used Lilypond or any other scoring software, but believe that Postscript is a major plus. I know that Ghostscript exists to convert Postscript documents, but figure that if my printer natively understands PS it will be quicker and save processor time. Is Postscript Level 3 required, or will Level 2 suffice? PJL? PCL5? I also want a networkable one to share over my (wired) LAN. I've looked at the very informative pages about Linux Printing: http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html ...and am considering getting a Kyocera Mita FS-920, FS-1010N or FS1020 or maybe something else by another penguin-loving company. Since I do have a fondness for old lo-tech gear, I did entertain ideas about a refurbished HP LaserJet 4 or 5 (fond memories from college days) after the high praise these old tanks got on Slashdot a while ago, but am thinking they may be a bit slow/tired compared to modern kit. My main considerations are reliability, build-quality, cost-per-page, speed and looks. I won't be printing reams and reams, and I can always manually re-enter pages to do duplex (both sides) printing. Sorry if this seems Off-Topic, but I wanted to check firstly that a Postscript mono-laser is a good choice for music. If necessary I'll take the discussion elsewhere to ask about specific models, unless anyone here has any good recommendations/horror stories to share. Thanks for your suggestions, -- Malcolm Smith http://www.canopus22.demon.co.uk/
