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