Re: Questions on printing
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 08:02:40AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:26:00PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > If you use printer in Linux using GS, it is as bad as using printer in
> > Windows with printing option for raster image enabled. It is very slow
> > on Linux due to this. One nice thing is, on windows, printing image
> > overun memory and crush your PC in this mode but GS never crashed that
> > hard on me.
>
> Osamu,
>
> How can I print in CUPS without using the GS mode? This is in a lab
> setting, where people print from Windows to SAMBA. PDF's is a nightmare,
> they get really big.
As I say in my document, if windows are accessing debian through samba
network, do not use GS.
Set up lpd without conversion.
Mount it to samba.
print using windows driver for that oprinter over network.
It worked for me.
http://qref.sf.net/Debian/reference/ch-install.en.html#s-lprlpd
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