[ale] sharing printer

[James P. Kinney III]

Find a postscript driver for the offending printer that will be used on
the windblows box. Share out the postscript printer. Use that printer on
the Linux client. Connect to it as a samba printer.

That printer _should_ be supported under Linux. It uses a generic HP
LaserJet format (PCL stuff). Check out www.linuxprinting.org

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 18:25, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> Elanchezhian Sivanandam wrote:
> > yeah,
> > 
> >   It is a  HP LaserJet 1100 (MS)
> >   and offcourse it uses a winbloze driver
> 
> Here is my guess as to what the problem is.
> 
>    You have the Winbloze server as you print server,
> 	It has a print driver for Winbloze,
> 	It expects data in a certain format (Windows Meta Data)
> 	It will take that data and re-format it according to the driver specs.
> 
>    You have a Linux box as your client,
> 	It is using a driver for the printer or just sending a RAW data flow.  Either way, it is not creating Windows Meta Data.
> 	ergo, Linux is sending data to the Winbloze server in the wrong format.
> 
>    Solution:
> 1)	Create a new Winbloze print queue for raw data as a pass though.  It will not do any formatting of the data, but will just ask as a FIFO pipe and/or buffer for the print job.
> or
> 2)	Use a Linux driver that creates Windows Meta Data that the Winbloze server can understand and re-format.
> 
> >   i can't understand  ur next question
> >   "What driver are you defining was used when creating the print job?"
> 
> Are you using a print driver on the Linux side? or are you sending raw data (or postscript) to the windows server?
> 
> >   but it print a line like this
> >   -----------------------------------------
> >  
> > elan
> > 
> > Keith Hopkins wrote:
> > 
> >> Elanchezhian Sivanandam wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>       i am able to access the printer in windows 2000 server using 
> >>> smbclient but unable to print a page.
> >>>       when a print command is given, it prints a single junk  line.
> >>>       what to do?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> You start by giving us some more details.  What kind of printer is 
> >> it?  Postscript? PCL? ESC/2? Inkjet? Laserjet?
> >> Is the print server set up for a RAW stream? or is it using a Winbloze 
> >> driver?
> >> What driver are you defining was used when creating the print job?
> >> What kind of junk gets printed?
> >>
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Lost in Tokyo,
>    Keith
> 
> 
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