[Samba] Point'n'print support of various printer drivers
Roel van Meer
rolek at bokxing.nl
Mon Apr 19 01:17:48 MDT 2010
ray klassen writes:
> The problem is always when a printer driver makes a call to a windows dll
> on the server which the linux server can't respond to. Wish the driver
> developers would brain up...
So you're saying those drivers just cannot work, right?
Is there a list somewhere of drivers that are known (not) to work with samba
point'n'print?
Regards,
roel
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> From: Ryan Suarez <ryan.suarez at sheridanc.on.ca>
> To: Roel van Meer <rolek at bokxing.nl>; samba at lists.samba.org
> Sent: Fri, 16 April, 2010 12:03:34
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Point'n'print support of various printer drivers
>
> Roel van Meer wrote:
>> We're using Point'n'print with different versions of samba (3.3.x, 3.4.x,
>> 3.5.x) and in most cases it works really well. However, there are some
>> printer drivers with which we just cannot get printing to work properly:
>> in these cases not all driver features (like color, duplex or multiple
>> copies) are available.
>>
>> I was wondering if this is a known inherent problem with some printer drivers, or if this is caused by samba not supporting specific methods or other requirements that these drivers would have.
>>
>> The reason I'm asking is that I would like to know whether or not it's
>> useful filing bugs for these issues. I already have test setups and I'm
>> willing and able to spend time helping debug these issues, but if this is
>> one of those things that'll just never work it's not really useful
>> bothering anyone with it.
>>
>> Examples of drivers that we can't get to work properly are the Brother HL4040-CN and various drivers from HP (the bundled Windows drivers for HP printers usually work fine.)
> Great question +1. All our lexmark drivers work like a charm.
>
> Xerox drivers are a PITA. I'm referring to vendor specific drivers, since Windows does not have a bundle for the newest Xerox models we have. I was also considering filing bug reports for these.
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