epike on Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:15:15 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] GDI Printers


My experience with a HP (i think it was 712C) on RH6.2 
is:

1. I got it to work, but it randomly crashes the server--
   looking back on it it could be because I did not define
   printer "pause" and "cancel" function from windows<->samba..
   never did find out, but seems to correlate with printing
   very large files.  I never did find out.
2. The way i figured it, is I print from windows using common
   Postscript printers (some apple printers work)..on the linux
   side there would be postscript renderer (ghostscript I think)
   that receives the postscript stream and converts
   to whatever the printer needs...this method creates large files
   when printing graphics.  
3. once its working, you can alias the printer to many names and
   many drivers, I had filters for BW, BW lowres, Color, etc mapped
   to the same printer using different drivers (each one having
   its own samba entry).

all i remember for now...sorry for the lack of details, it was
a year ago.  


JondZ


> 
> I'm attempting to make a print server for a Toshiba eStudio16 copier/printer. 
> This printer is a GDI printer, and from what I can tell, this is the WinModem 
> equivalent for printers, so workign with Linux is not guaranteed or likely. 
> However, I'm not really concerned about printing from linux as I am about the 
> windows computers on the network printing to the copier through samba. Does 
> anyone know how effective this would be? If I just setup lp0 to be a generic 
> printer and share it through samba, does this effectively become a redirector 
> or does the communication between linux and printer still rely on the 
> proprietary GDI protocol?
> 
> any wisdom, advise, or assistance is greatly appreciated.
> 
> thanks


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