[CentOS] Raw print queues in CentOS 4.4

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

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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