Querying Printers

[Steeve]

Keith Lynn wrote:
> 
> Mr. Bannon,
>      Your site is very helpful in seeing how accounting is done. However,
> I've run into a problem. I am running Samba on a Linux server which
> serves NT clients. When I look at the file that Samba stores temporarily,
> for example, when I print a Word document, the .doc file is in the
> /var/spool/samba/printers directory and not the postscript version. I have
> an HP 4000N printer. Is there a way to force it to place the postscript
> version on the server? Thanks.

What printer driver are you using?  Are you sure you're
using the Postscript printer driver (as opposed to the
PCL driver)?

I use ghostscript to count pages on my HP4500N and process
the spooled file to do so so it sounds like you're not
using the correct driver in Windoze.

steeve

> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, David Bannon wrote:
> 
> > At 09:48 PM 04/12/2000 -0600, Keith Lynn wrote:
> > >Hello everyone,
> > >     I have a question that I hope some of you can help me with.
> >
> > One suggestion :
> >
> > http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au/about/admin/aprint/aprint.html
> >
> >
> > david
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > David Bannon                      D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au
> > School of Biochemistry            Phone 61 03 9479 2197
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> > Bundoora, Vic, Australia, 3083    http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au
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> > ..... Humpty Dumpty was pushed !
> >

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