printing from ms-win to linux withough samba ?

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Mar 15, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
>
> Mind you, this will require manually taking care of the printer  
> driver,
> which is lots of work if you have many clients, and which a
> Windows-based print server (what you get by "Sharing" your printer)
> tries to save you, and which samba tries to imitate with varying  
> degrees
> of success. But cups alone _is_ enough for mere printing.


It depends. The standard cups installation expects you to use a  
postscript printer driver.
If you want to install a Windows printer driver, to take advantage of  
the unique features
of your printer, you need to enable RAW printing in cups.

For example, my printer, a Samsung ML-1610 has a toner saving option.  
You can set it
on or off using the button on the printer, you can set it on or off  
using the CUPS printer
configuration menu, but if you want to print from Windows AND turn it  
on or off using the
Windows printing dialog, you have to install the Windows print driver  
and turn on RAW
printing.

Geoff.

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