Tackling a shared USB printer (linux -> WXP)

Brion Swanson brions at poetryproject.net
Tue May 4 12:23:16 UTC 2004


Well as I stated earlier, when I set the printer driver to Raw Queue then I
cannot print anything from linux locally (though networked Windows
connections appear to work).

The solution seems to be to create two queues - one for local printing with
the correct Canon driver and one for networked Windows (and other shared)
printing with the Raw Queue.  This seems to have the right behavior, but it
seems wrong that I should need to set up multiple queues to the same printer
with different driver sets to get linux and Windows machines to print to it.

Thanks for all your help guys!
Brion
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Waugh" <twaugh at redhat.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: Tackling a shared USB printer (linux -> WXP)


On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:55:40PM -0400, Brion Swanson wrote:

> After changing the mime.types and mime.convs to include
> application/octet-stream the Windows machines can print (well, at least
one
> can -- I haven't tried the other, but for all intents and purposes,
they're
> the same).

This isn't really the right way to do it if you're using
redhat-config-printer -- instead, set a queue to be raw ('Generic' ->
'Raw Print Queue' as the model).

Tim.
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