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sputicus
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 Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:00 pm Post subject: Printing to a network printer using Cups |
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This is one of those cases where I saw something work and thought, man someone should post this to the forum so someone else can use it.
We just got printing to our office network printer working from linux using cups. Specifically this is a Brother MFC-8840D configured to be located as a specific ip address.
Using cups (see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml) we
Opened a browser to http://localhost:631/ and logged in as root.
Then we added a new printer,
Gave it a Name, Location and Description (I am sure only Name is important).
For Device, we chose Internet Printing Protocol (http)
For Device URI, we put http://192.168.3.5 (which is the ip address of our printer).
For Make, we selected: Raw
For Model, we selected: Raw Queue (en) The selection of Raw must work because the printer is PostScript capable.
Hope this helps someone. |
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adaptr
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Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
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| Quote: | | The selection of Raw must work because the printer is PostScript capable |
This may have several asides.
For one, you place the printing load squarely on the client - it will have to figure this out, and if you do not have PostScript capability on the client then you're out of luck (many Windows machines do not have PS support out of the box).
Second, this may cause hiccups when using different levels of PostScript - for instance, when a PS3 client tries to print to a PS2 printer.
Since the server will not intervene in any of these scenarios the error will occur at the printer (bad, bad mojo...) or on the client.
A print server generally provides two functions: large capacity spooling, which is more commonly associated with a print server machine, but also conversion between formats, which can be very important in heterogenous environments.
If it's a native PostScript printer, then set it up as such - error reporting will make sense on the server, so they can be logged, and format conversion will work, so clients can easily print to CUPS using a different driver for the printer.
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