Feizhou feizhou@graffiti.net wrote:
He means when you add a network printer, you don't need to carry the driver cd/disk with you to each Windows PC.
It's more than just that.
Even if I load the Adobe Postscript driver** and the vendor PPD (possibly after I've modified the settings to the correct for the printer config), the user could change things (depending on access). They also don't get any new modifications I make at the CUPS server.
**NOTE: On a corporate network, this is a good practice, so you're not going around and installing all sorts of vendor printer drivers, which can conflict. Of course, it means you have to have Postscript printers *OR* CUPS emulating Postscript. The Samba-CUPS with CUPS Windows driver at the client is easist and best, once you set it up on the server.
Just browse for the printer and the Windows OS on the PC
will
automatically download the driver files and settings and
then
you are done.
And best of all, you only have to do this *1* time from CUPS, and then run *1* Samba command to update anytime you make changes (that affect the PPDs).