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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:10:44
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0812161810s18f30130h5788a05edc584785@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions? by Dale
1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > You ever thought of using webmin? I think webmin will help set this
4 > up. Just a thought.
5 >
6 > Dale
7 >
8 > :-) :-)
9
10 Honestly, there was nothing webmin was really going to do for me.
11 There were two lines to be uncommented in the /etc/cups/mimes files.
12 After that everything else was done on the Windows computers to get
13 this to work. I honestly didn't have to change much to get Windows
14 working. It was more finding out what driver to use on Windows so that
15 it would just talk to cups and then understand the format of the
16 address for the Windows printer setup.
17
18 I've now tested my Vista machine. It works fine and Vista actually had
19 an HP driver for this printer so I used that driver since the Adobe
20 postscript driver doesn't install on Vista. From Vista I can print in
21 color on the cups printer. On the XP machine using the generic
22 postscript driver I get black & white.
23
24 - Mark

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