Re: Printing from windows
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:57:35AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> The solution then is to set up a printer in printcap that does not use
> magicfilter but instead just passes the raw data straight to the
> printer.
> Then use this printer as the share printer exported by samba. Windows
> is
> already taking care of all the formatting, printer definition, etc. via
> the
> printer driver. All samba has to do is pass it on to the printer
> without
> trying to process it.
I have never found magicfilter to interfere with this though. I have
a PCL5 HP5L, and I print through samba to the same printer which I print
to on linux with lpr, with magic filter -- no problem. From memory
I did the same with my ESC2P bubblejet 20 before that.
Hamish
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