[Samba] OT? PDF printer driver for automatic deployment

[Florian Stahl]

Hi Henning,

check out the Tektronix Printer drivers shipping with W2K, my PDF-writer on
samba
works with the Phaser 840 plus (max 1200 dpi)

Florian
(fstahl at xantury.com)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+fstahl=xantury.com at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+fstahl=xantury.com at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of
> Henning Holtschneider
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 3:25 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] OT? PDF printer driver for automatic deployment
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a printing server running Samba 3.0alpha21 (on Linux). The
> client machines running Windows 2000 are producing PDF files
> by printing
> to a "virtual" printer on the Samba machine. The printer
> driver shall be
> installed from the Samba server on demand. I need color output, b/w is
> not sufficient.
>
> Everything works fine, i.e. the PDF conversion process and
> the automatic
> driver installation on the client machine, BUT:
>
> Which Windows 2000 printer driver should I use? I've tried several HP
> models which let me control all sorts of printer (hardware) parameters
> but very little Postscript parameters. I've tried an Apple Color
> Laserwriter driver but the output doesn't look as good as it should. I
> tried a Minolta driver but it fails to install on the server.
>
> Then, I came across Adobe's Universal Postscript driver but
> it lacks an
> .inf file I could use to upload the driver to the server. Apart from
> that, the Adobe Universal driver will always result in b/w output.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
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