Re: Tackling a shared USB printer (linux -> WXP)

From: d l (popgojp_at_yahoo.co.jp)
Date: 05/04/04

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    Interesting. I have the raw octet stream enabled in
    mime.*, both windows and localmachine print perfectly.

    --- Brion Swanson <brions@poetryproject.net> $B$+$i$N%a%C(B
    $B%;!<%8!'(B
    > Well as I stated earlier, when I set the printer
    > driver to Raw Queue then I
    > cannot print anything from linux locally (though
    > networked Windows
    > connections appear to work).
    >
    > The solution seems to be to create two queues - one
    > for local printing with
    > the correct Canon driver and one for networked
    > Windows (and other shared)
    > printing with the Raw Queue. This seems to have the
    > right behavior, but it
    > seems wrong that I should need to set up multiple
    > queues to the same printer
    > with different driver sets to get linux and Windows
    > machines to print to it.
    >
    > Thanks for all your help guys!
    > Brion
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Tim Waugh" <twaugh@redhat.com>
    > To: "For users of Fedora Core releases"
    > <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    > Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 6:03 AM
    > Subject: Re: Tackling a shared USB printer (linux ->
    > WXP)
    >
    >
    > On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:55:40PM -0400, Brion
    > Swanson wrote:
    >
    > > After changing the mime.types and mime.convs to
    > include
    > > application/octet-stream the Windows machines can
    > print (well, at least
    > one
    > > can -- I haven't tried the other, but for all
    > intents and purposes,
    > they're
    > > the same).
    >
    > This isn't really the right way to do it if you're
    > using
    > redhat-config-printer -- instead, set a queue to be
    > raw ('Generic' ->
    > 'Raw Print Queue' as the model).
    >
    > Tim.
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