At 09:54 17/06/01 +0100, Steven Murdoch wrote:
>Also I need to print via a shared HP 1100 on a Windows machine, again
>Redhat did an excellent job of setting this up with ghostscript, so all I
>have to do is type "lpr filename.ps" and it will use ghostscript convert it
>to HP PCL and then use Samba to send it to the printer, by way of a huge
>shell script. Can Debian do the same without me having to recreate a 376
>line shell script.
Here's the config from a box I use - works for me.
HTH
Colin
---/etc/printcap------------------------------
hplaser:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplaser:\
:mx#0:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/hplaser/filter:\
:cm=Postscript converted and redirect to lp1:\
:sh:
---/var/spool/lpd/hplaser/filter --------------------
#!/bin/sh
gs -q -sDEVICE=ljet4 \
-r300x300 \
-sPAPERSIZE=a4 \
-dNOPAUSE \
-dSAFER \
-sOutputFile=- - | /usr/bin/smbprint \\\\server\\sharename
---/usr/bin/smbprint ----------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
(
echo "print -"
cat
) | /usr/bin/smbclient "$1" "" -P >/tmp/lastloprint.log
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