On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:18:43AM +0000, Subba Rao wrote:
> The printer is HP Deskjet 842C. It may be a winprinter. However I would like
> to submit print jobs from Linux to this printer. Is it still possible for linux
> to send the print job to this and other Windows printers?
The HP84x series aren't Postscript printers and need proprietary drivers.
>From here, you've got two solutions:
1) Use Linux native drivers:
Connect it to your own computer, or a remote Windows computer
(and set it up as a share) and use printtool to configure it.
In Printtool, make sure you set it's model. It'll then use
Ghostscript to generate the proprietary data to send to
the printer. Unfortunately, the resulting output quality of this
'native' mode is poor.
2) Use Windows native drivers and a port redirector:
- Set up a Windows computer and connect the printer to it.
- Install the native Windows printer driver.
- Set the printer as a Windows share.
- Install Windows version of Ghostscript and Ghostview.
- Install RedMon (free redirector port software which can be
found at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/).
- Add another "printer" of type "Generic", and go into it's
Properties.
- Click "Add Port" and make it use the "Redirected Port".
- Click the "Port Settings" button and select "Program handles output".
Then you'll need to use the 'gsprint' program which
can be found with Ghostview. You'll have to use a helper
program supplied in RedMon's ZIP file to create a temporary
file with the print job first.
Those are details I don't rememebr anymore but can look up
on request.
--
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov
=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
