Re: Printers..
Quoting Brian Servis (servis@purdue.edu):
> *- 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
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what does that do? ____/
> driver. Someone needs to write a GPL'ed ghostscript windows printer
> driver(maybe it already exists?).
I'm interested in this too, as I have a linux box serving an HP 895
to an NT box as well as other linuxes. I actually use the HP 895
driver, but I had to trick NT into install it. What I did was to
borrow the 895 for NT just to install the HP driver (which insists
on seeing the printer - I guess it talks back).
After I'd returned the 895 to linux, I set up my default printer on NT
with some driver already present, and then changed its Properties to
the HP 895 driver ("keep this version" option).
Are there any advantages in having done this?
Cheers,
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