[CentOS] CUPS Problem

Mon Oct 16 23:32:53 UTC 2006
Les Bowditch <piperlester at shaw.ca>

I tried your suggestion, and Akemi (sorry if I spelled that wrong).  

It still doesn't want to print :S

Is there any other information/configs that might help figure this out?

Thanks,

Les

----- Original Message -----
From: Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>
Date: Monday, October 16, 2006 6:47 am
Subject: Re: [CentOS] CUPS Problem

> Les Bowditch wrote:
> > This could very well be an issue with the HP driver suite, since 
> they force you to use their installer, rather than providing 
> specific drivers.  The installer doesn't play nice unless the 
> printer is hooked up locally. 
> 
> Ugh. Maybe we should try the Samba printer driver hack. Do you 
> have an 
> inf file for your printer?
> 
> > 
> > Do you know of any different driver sets that could be used, or 
> how I can feed directly into CUPS from the Windows machine, as I 
> have all the CUPS drivers for Windows.  
> 
> CUPS drivers for Windows?? Regarding feeding directly from CUPS in 
> Windows, yeah, there is a way. Use the cups queue and install one 
> of 
> those Apple Postscript drivers for the cups queue. That way, the 
> Windows 
> boxes will generate postscript which cups can swallow and intepret.
> 
> The cups + Windows Apple postscript driver should be the simplest.
> 
> The printer driver wizard method with an inf file is a bit more 
> involved, see the link below:
> 
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-
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