[plug] Non-linux printers

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Tue May 8 22:47:33 WST 2007


Richard Meyer wrote:

> Um, not quite what I was hoping for. The general idea is about what we
> were wanting to do, BUT, how would we print from the Linux boxen to the
> queues on the Win boxes, since all the Googling I've done suggests that
> the Linux boxes HAVE to have the printer drivers installed to print via
> SAMBA.
> 
> It's the "how do I get printouts from the Linux boxes to the Win boxes
> to the unsupported (under Linux) printers" that I'm lacking. Any ideas?

It wouldn't surprise me if someone had written a Windows printer driver
that fed postscript to Ghostscript for Windows.  This mailing list post
mentions a programme called "RedMon" that may do the trick:

        http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/gsview/2002-December/000109.html

Cameron




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