Re: Windows XP to Woody/Cups Printer? How? - THANKS
Great responses! Derrick's detailed explanation of the problem made
everything clear and Donald's recommendation of the Adobe Generic
Postscript driver provided the solution. I have not yet tested a full
color picture but the red Adobe logo included in their test page was
fine and the MSWord documents (grandson's homework) printed perfectly.
Tom George
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:06:28AM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote:
> Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> > -SNIP- <
> >Option 2)
> > Use the CUPS thin-client architecture, letting the driver on the
> > debian system control specifically how the result will appear. To
> > do this change the driver on the Windows client to one that
> > generates data CUPS knows how to handle. For example, I often use
> > the "HP Laserjet IIIp Postscript" driver to make windows generate
> > postscript which cups then converts to PCL (for my printer).
> > Since my printer(s) are B&W only this works well. Unfortunately
> > that windows driver converts color to grayscale, thus you won't
> > want to use that driver for a color printer. The last time I
> > tried with the HP ColorLaserjet Postscript driver the postcript
> > windows generated was really weird. CUPS didn't find any pages to
> > print, but 'gv' would render it correctly. If I used gv to
> > regenerate the postscript (by printing marked pages) it would
> > work. If you try this option, let us know which printer model to
> > pick to get functional postscript with color from windows.
> >
> >HTH,
> >-D
> >
>
> I have had good luck on both B&W and Color printing from a WinME box via
> Samba to my LAN printer (CUPS) by using the "generic" Windows Poscript
> Printer driver available from Adobe. It is a free download. It seems
> to handle Color OK for me.
>
> Cheers,
> -Don Spoon-
>
>
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