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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I've now tested my Vista machine. It works fine and Vista actually had |
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>> an HP driver for this printer so I used that driver since the Adobe |
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>> postscript driver doesn't install on Vista. From Vista I can print in |
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>> color on the cups printer. On the XP machine using the generic |
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>> postscript driver I get black & white. |
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> It all seems so easy now :) |
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> Has anyone got any tips on setting it up the other way? Printing from |
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> linux to a shared (non-network) printer connected to a Windows |
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> machine? Surely that would require Samba... |
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> Thanks, |
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> Paul |
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Yeah, it does. Almost too easy. |
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If I'm left with any technical questions about doing this (and I am) |
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then the first one is to better understand this concept of RAW print |
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queues as brought up by Willie. I suppose the idea is that cups |
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doesn't do anything to data arriving on that interface and just sends |
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it to the printer? That way a windows machine might format a page |
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using its own driver and cups just passes the data on? Makes sense to |
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me, but it's all made up and I can't find any real info specifically |
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about that yet. |
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I don't understand yet whether my XP machine is using the 'raw' |
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interface. It has a postscript driver so I suspect it's sending |
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postscript. Is it then passed through 'raw', not converted by cups, |
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and handled by my $79 freebie printer Apple gave me when I made the |
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worst computer purchase of the nearly 30 years I've been using |
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computers. (Mac Mini) I douobt that printer even knows postscript so I |
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think cups must be helping out with that. |
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Anyway, it really does work. It's not too hard to set up. I suppose |
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someone like me should write up a little Wiki page or something but |
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I've never done anything like that so it scares me. don't mind writing |
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it but don't want to support it for fear of the depth of questions |
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I'll never be able to successfully answer! :~) |
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- Mark |
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