On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>>> I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI: >>>> >>>> http://192.168.1.59:631/printers >>>> >>>> It gives me a long, ugly descriptive name for the printer so I tried: >>>> >>>> lpr -P HP_PSC_1600_series_USB_1 optimize_mythdb.sh >>> >>> You may want to add the printer again in CUPS, this time using a better >>> name. The CUPS web interface doesn't provide for renaming printers, >>> so either re-install it or try editing /etc/cups/printers.conf. I've not >>> tried the latter,but I expect it would work if you stopped cupsd first. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Neil Bothwick >>> >> >> Just finished doing that. Now lpr -P HP1600 file.name works fine. >> >> Still looking for info on this <RAW print queue> thing. >> >> I've tried adding a printer on my Vista laptop using Willie's >> suggested setup but so far it doesn't contact the Linux printer. >> Probably I need the RAW thing setup before that will work. >> >> - Mark >> > > OK, now I'm thinking that maybe the <RAW> stuff Willie was talking > about is accomplished by uncommenting the two lines in the > mime.conv/types files. > > I set up a network printer from my Windows XP box pointing at the > Linux Cups server. I told Windows it was an Apple Laserwriter II NT. I > couldn't find a Generic Postscript printer listed. I asked Windows to > print a generic printer test page an out popped what I was looking for > - A Windows XP Printer Test Page. I then tried to print an email and > the printer is complaining about ink in the cartridge. Ain't that > always the way it works? ;-) > > So, definite headway. I've now printed B&W at least. > > Thanks all, > Mark >
I switched to the Adobe generic postscript driver and now it works, at least from XP. I got the Adobe driver here. http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44&platform=Windows Samba is not used and is not running. I'll test Vista later but it's not clear that this driver works on Vista at all so that may be a bit dodgy. We'll see. Thanks to everyone for their help. Cheers, Mark
