Have you tried a generic PCL5e, PostScript or dot-matrix driver and send it strait to the printer? a lot times a generic driver will work.
I would imagine you have a PCL driver on the windows machine. Also have you set up a share on the windows machine. Make sure you gone through all the basics.
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 07:23 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
I have a raw print queue configured in CentOS 4.4 for a printer connected to a Windows PC. The printer doesn't have a Linux driver of any sort, so this was the only way to print to it.
Umm. That means that the applications have to have a driver for the printer.
Maybe I'm just dumb. But, I thought I explained that the Okidata is connected to the Windows PC, and is configured there with the Windows driver. The printer is shared, so I added it to the CentOS 4.4 server as a raw CUPS queue to let all the processing happen on the Windows box.
Printing works from console apps on the CentOS server. But, OOo documents don't print properly. I've assumed that this is because the Windows driver for the Okidata doesn't understand postscript, so it's just printing the file directly. So, that's why I was asking if my reasoning was correct or if something else was broken.
So OOo thinks it's printing to a postscript printer. This is not going to work unless the Windows peecee translates postscript to whatever the printer expects.
Yes, that's what I've been thinking. And, it looks like the Windows driver can't do postscript.
Something broke; the problem is there right behind your eyes:-)
If you don't have a Linux printer driver for that printer, you're not going to get far unless something on Windows does the translation.
Agreed.
Check IBM's Omni driver suite (which should be installed or on your install media), there may be something usable there.
I've tried all those drivers; basically everything I could find on linuxprinting.org about getting an Okidata ML 395 working. Nothing has worked.
I have to be doing something wrong on the printer itself. Changing the printer's emulation type should have let me use one of the corresponding drivers on the CUPS end.
I'll give it another kick. Then maybe some drop kicks. Then a "whoops....don't know how it went down the stairs...strange!"
Regards,
Ranbir
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