Re: Printers..
*- On 5 Nov, Joe Block wrote about "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.
>
Very true. I do this as well. Works great for Word and such when
including .eps files in the document. You can also set up some nice
2-up or 4-up print filters using postscript post processing programs in
the psutils package.
A long standing question though is which postscript printer driver to
use on the windows machine? I usally choose an Apple driver since they
tend to stick to the true postscript format and don't add proprietary
formats like HP sometimes does. I also select the Archive Format in the
driver. Someone needs to write a GPL'ed ghostscript windows printer
driver(maybe it already exists?).
Brian Servis
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