Printer

[Joel Hammer]

Is the file you are trying to print postscript?
Joel

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:57:14PM -0300, Supervisor wrote:
> 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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