Re: Printing to Windows
* Ed Ahlsen-Girard on Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:43:51AM -0500: > > The best answer is simply buy a good quality, postscript, network > > enabled printer. > That might be an option once I have a job again, but even then > space considerations will weigh heavily. This is at home. If it is at home, then I'd seriously suggest that you'd use LPD on Windows. This way, at least the connection from your OpenBSD box to the spooler is not cluttered by a myriad of byzantine protocols (especially of all things SMB and CUPS...), and you can concentrate on finding a way to convert your jobs to a format the printer understands (and the setup stays *much* simpler and thus much easier to debug should problems arise someday). Last time I did it, setting up LPD on Windows was almost a no-brainer, and the correspinging printcap was straightforward and worked out of the box at the first try. As for the "printer driver" (for lack of a better term), you might want to take a look at http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=HP for your specific OfficeJet. On a cursory look, it seems as if the OfficeJets are quite well supported by a number of different ways, so it should be relatively easy to e.g. plug a filter programme into printcap. I believe I have a few OfficeJets around at work; if I find the time I will experiment a little bit with them. s//un
Re: Printing to Windows
On Mon, 25 May 2009 01:53 -0500 J. C. Roberts wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2009 23:39:17 -0400 wrote: > > > > If anyone is printing successfully to an OfficeJet served on an XP > > > box from OBSD 4.4 or later, I'd sure appreciate knowing how you do it. > > The best answer is simply buy a good quality, postscript, network > enabled printer. That might be an option once I have a job again, but even then space considerations will weigh heavily. This is at home. > > The second best answer is CUPS. > > You're attempting the worst possible answer, namely printing through > MS-windows. I haven't ever tried it myself, but I'd bet if it is > possible, then you'll be doing it through samba (in ports) and possibly > CUPS (in ports). > > NOTE: There were a handful of commits to ports-changes@ in the last > week or two regarding samba and cups, so you might want to try > installing -current through a snapshot, and building the needed > printing related ports yourself. > > -- J.C. Roberts I will check those out. Previous attempts with samba and cups would allow things like printing straight text only. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type APPLICATION/DEFANGED which had a name of eagirard.27899DEFANGED-vcf]
Re: Printing to Windows -- waste
> If anyone is printing successfully to an OfficeJet served on > an XP box ... I find, after asking over a dozen such admins over the last two years, that the admins who take care of such boxes can't give connecton information at all. One work-around is to fire up tcpdump, with regex limiters if you wish, carry the computer over to the printer and plug it in directly. Use a patch cable if necessary. That will tell you the IP number to use for that particular session and then use jetdirect for printing. -Lars
Re: Printing to Windows
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 08:27:20AM +0200, nils.reuv...@sparkholland.com wrote: > It would require Samba and Cups. not necesarily. Windows XP has an LPD. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/techtips/lpd_print_solaris.html is the first result from googling "windows lpd". > > Read more here > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html > > Should give you a headstart. > > Nils > > -Original Message- > From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of > eagir...@cox.net > Sent: maandag 25 mei 2009 5:39 > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Printing to Windows > > If anyone is printing successfully to an OfficeJet served on an XP box from > OBSD 4.4 or later, I'd sure appreciate knowing how you do it. > > -- > Ed Ahlsen-Girard > Ft. Walton Beach FL > > > = > > A disclaimer applies to this email and any attachments. > Refer to http://www.sparkholland.com/emaildisclaimer for the full text of this > disclaimer. > -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
Re: Printing to Windows
On Sun, 24 May 2009, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2009 23:39:17 -0400 wrote: > > > If anyone is printing successfully to an OfficeJet served on an XP > > box from OBSD 4.4 or later, I'd sure appreciate knowing how you do it. > > The best answer is simply buy a good quality, postscript, network > enabled printer. > > The second best answer is CUPS. IIRC, if you want to share a windows printer, you can enable LPD. -- Antoine
Re: Printing to Windows
On Sun, 24 May 2009 23:39:17 -0400 wrote: > If anyone is printing successfully to an OfficeJet served on an XP > box from OBSD 4.4 or later, I'd sure appreciate knowing how you do it. The best answer is simply buy a good quality, postscript, network enabled printer. The second best answer is CUPS. You're attempting the worst possible answer, namely printing through MS-windows. I haven't ever tried it myself, but I'd bet if it is possible, then you'll be doing it through samba (in ports) and possibly CUPS (in ports). NOTE: There were a handful of commits to ports-changes@ in the last week or two regarding samba and cups, so you might want to try installing -current through a snapshot, and building the needed printing related ports yourself. -- J.C. Roberts
Re: Printing to Windows
It would require Samba and Cups. Read more here http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html Should give you a headstart. Nils -Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of eagir...@cox.net Sent: maandag 25 mei 2009 5:39 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Printing to Windows If anyone is printing successfully to an OfficeJet served on an XP box from OBSD 4.4 or later, I'd sure appreciate knowing how you do it. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Ft. Walton Beach FL = A disclaimer applies to this email and any attachments. Refer to http://www.sparkholland.com/emaildisclaimer for the full text of this disclaimer.
Printing to Windows
If anyone is printing successfully to an OfficeJet served on an XP box from OBSD 4.4 or later, I'd sure appreciate knowing how you do it. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Ft. Walton Beach FL
