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Hi Bernard
<br>I use apsfilter on Debian 2.2
<br>you can get it from <A HREF="http://www.linuxwa.com.au">http://www.linuxwa.com.au</A>
<br>
<p>Bernard Blackham wrote:
<br>
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi,
<p>Coming from Red Hat and moving to Debian, I'm still trying to find where
<br>everything is. Is there an equivalent to printtool for Red Hat and
<br>it's magic filters and smb configuration capabilities in Debian 2.2?
I
<br>came across a printtool for the woody distribution of Debian, but it
<br>doesnt seem to be included in Debian 2.2 (potato) and the woody deb
<br>package does not install (says corrupted). Is there a tool as nice
as
<br>printtool for setting up smb printers for Linux?
<p>Also, this may be a fairly self-answering question... The reason I am
<br>using this is to print to my Windows only printer (argh) from linux.
It (a
<br>Canon LBP-660) is currently attached to my machine and always printed
<br>under Windows, sluggishly of course. I can get it to work under Linux
by
<br>running a dumbed down version of Windows 98 in VMWare and I can print
<br>PostScript files by feeding them through gs with output as hp laserjet
and
<br>print through smbclient to the virtual machine (phew!). Is there a
neater
<br>solution? ie, a driver for the LBP-660 for linux? being a Windows only
<br>printer I'm guessing not. I did find a web page where somebody claims
to
<br>have got it to work using the laserjet driver, but i'm unable to do
the
<br>same. The windows driver supports HP PCL5e emulation (and thus the
<br>laserjet output from gs), but the printer talks it's own raw language.
Has
<br>anybody had any success with this?
<p>Thanks,
<p>Bernard.
<p>--
<br> Bernard Blackham
<br> dagobah@mad.scientist.com</blockquote>
<pre>--
Chris Crawford
IT Manager
Bizzpro
<A HREF="http://www.bizzpro.com.au">http://www.bizzpro.com.au</A>
ICQ 2835288</pre>
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