[Info-vax] Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[Dirk Munk]

Ever since I have been using DCPS I have been in favour of using 
Postscript printers. Almost every operating system has support for 
Postscript, and for high-end printing it is the de facto standard.

Finding an affordable Postscript printer however is not easy, and 
certainly not when you want duplex printing as well. You can get rather 
cheap laser printers with Postscript, but then they have no duplex 
printing and the toner kits are quite expensive too.

But now I stumbled over two printers that look like the ones I was 
searching for. They are the Epson Workforce Pro WP-4090 DN and WP-4590 
DNF (Americas) or WP-4095 DN and WP-4595 DNF (Europe) inkjet printers. 
The DN types are pure printers, the DNF types multi-functionals with 
scanner etc. They have real Adobe level 3 postscript emulation, and I 
suppose that promises maximum compatibility with DCPS. They have USB and 
100Mb ethernet interfaces (IPv4 and *IPv6*), but *no* WiFi. The biggest 
ink cartridges print 3400 pages(!!), and the ink is quite water and 
smudge proof (better than lasers), and doesn't fade for something like 
100 years. Printing costs per page are extremely low.

HP doesn't have inkjet Postscript printers any more, they had a few in 
the past.

I'm not affiliated with Epson in any way, this is just to inform the 
members of this group.