[plug] Printtool for debian

[Chris Crawford]

Hi Bernard
I use apsfilter on Debian 2.2
you can get it from http://www.linuxwa.com.au


Bernard Blackham wrote:


> Hi,
>
> Coming from Red Hat and moving to Debian, I'm still trying to find where
> everything is. Is there an equivalent to printtool for Red Hat and
> it's magic filters and smb configuration capabilities in Debian 2.2? I
> came across a printtool for the woody distribution of Debian, but it
> doesnt seem to be included in Debian 2.2 (potato) and the woody deb
> package does not install (says corrupted). Is there a tool as nice as
> printtool for setting up smb printers for Linux?
>
> Also, this may be a fairly self-answering question... The reason I am
> using this is to print to my Windows only printer (argh) from linux. It (a
> Canon LBP-660) is currently attached to my machine and always printed
> under Windows, sluggishly of course. I can get it to work under Linux by
> running a dumbed down version of Windows 98 in VMWare and I can print
> PostScript files by feeding them through gs with output as hp laserjet and
> print through smbclient to the virtual machine (phew!). Is there a neater
> solution? ie, a driver for the LBP-660 for linux? being a Windows only
> printer I'm guessing not. I did find a web page where somebody claims to
> have got it to work using the laserjet driver, but i'm unable to do the
> same. The windows driver supports HP PCL5e emulation (and thus the
> laserjet output from gs), but the printer talks it's own raw language. Has
> anybody had any success with this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bernard.
>
> --
>  Bernard Blackham
>  dagobah at mad.scientist.com

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Chris Crawford
IT Manager
Bizzpro
http://www.bizzpro.com.au
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