Re: [opensuse] cups and Windows

On Wednesday 26 September 2007 09:42:31 am Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Sep 26 2007 11:42, James Knott wrote:
Well it does want a driver, and that is reasonable. I for my part
prefer the CUPS Postscript one available somewhere at the cups site;
a package that does both b/w and color is at [2]

[2] http://jengelh.hopto.org/f/cups6c.zip

I have never had to download a driver, postscript or other, to talk
to CUPS. I simply configure CUPS for the printer and then point
the Windows computer at the CUPS server. However, you may need a
printer driver for Windows, if the printer is not already
supported.

Well well, hold it. Sometimes there is a reason you want Windows
to send Postscript instead of raster or printer-specific command (aka
"raw").. which is what most printer drivers actually do. For example,
if you want job logging[1] or let CUPS do the rasterization, or...

[1] gv /var/spool/cups/d01234-001
yup, that's all and you know what your users printed. :)

Would the result on paper be the same?

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