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Re: Printers..



Brian Servis wrote:
> Samba will make this possible.  Just make a local printer available that
> passes the print data from the win machines directly to the printer
> without using a filter.  That way you can install the printer driver on
> the win machines and take full advantage of the native win print
> drivers.  Read the SMB-HOWTO and the doc in the samba-doc package.

It's also worth it to set the printer up as a postscript printer as well
on the windows machines - magicfilter will autodetect postscript and
render it using ghostscript.  Sometimes you can get better output from
software by using a postscript printer, especially when you're using
Adobe programs.

jpb
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Joe Block <jpb@creol.ucf.edu>
CREOL System Administrator

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