Printer

Supervisor supervisor at posgrad.nce.ufrj.br
Wed Jan 23 13:06:59 GMT 2002


My printer is a HP LaserJet 4000N Series PCL6, yes it's postscript, the
command that you gave almost work it because it only print like the first
line of the document.

Rafael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Hammer" <Joel at HammersHome.com>
To: "Supervisor" <supervisor at posgrad.nce.ufrj.br>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: Printer


> I'll work on something for this tonight.  You should poke around the lprng
> documentation, which will have info on setting up your printcap file and
> printer queue. samba really doesn't play any role here except to supply
> the smbclient print command, which ideally, will be used in your print
> filter.
>
> (I use lprng. You may have different printer software.)
>
> Is your printer postscript? What is the printer you are using? Which
> applications do you want to print from?
>
> Can you print using the command I gave you to try?
>
> Joel
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:34:38PM -0300, Supervisor wrote:
> >   Yes, that's what I want, but I want too is to be able to map this
> > printer to my KDE so ,for an example, if I'm using Netscape and saw a
> > article that I want to print, I want to be able to print this article
from
> > the KDE.
> >         I know that seems asking for too much, but if you know how to do
it,
> > I would appreciate.
> >
> > Thanks for your patience,
> >
> > Rafael
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joel Hammer" <Joel at HammersHome.com>
> > To: "Supervisor" <supervisor at posgrad.nce.ufrj.br>;
<samba at lists.samba.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 1:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: Printer
> >
> >
> > > You can print to a windows printer. It can be tricky to set up. There
are
> > > scripts available, which may not always work. The basic command is:
> > >
> > > smbclient //server/printshare -Uuser%password -c "print FileToPrint"
> > >
> > > I am never sure of the password stuff because I don't use them on my
home
> > > system. If you don't need a password, use -N instead
of -Uuser%password.
> > >
> > > The FileToPrint must be formatted for your printer. Windows will not,
I
> > > believe, do any filtering for you.
> > >
> > > You can get creative and put this command into a printer filter, so
you
> > can
> > > just print with lpr. Of course, you will need to filter the job for
your
> > > windows printer. If you have a postscript printer, this won't be too
> > > difficult to do.
> > >
> > > Joel
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:19:29PM -0300, Supervisor wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > >     I want to know if there's a thay i can do to my linuxbox use a
> > printer installed in a win2k server(this computer is acting as
print-server
> > in my domain).
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > >
> > > > Rafael





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