On 2008-11-29, Ed Ahlsen-Girard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Hall wrote: >> Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: >>> OK, I've installed Samba, and gotten printcap set such that I >>> printed a straight text fire, but nothing else works now that I tried >>> to print other formats through gv and open-office. >>> >>> Perhaps Samba is not the way to go? Printcap below. >>> >>> # $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $ >>> >>> #lp|local line printer:\ >>> # :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: >>> >>> #rp|remote line printer:\ >>> # :lp=:rm=printhost:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: >>> lp|hpoffice:rp=hpoffice:rm=192.168.1.100:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice:af=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice/acct:if=/usr/local/bin/smbprint:mx=0:lp=/dev/null: >>> >> >> >> For local printing, samba does nothing. Unless your printer supports >> postcsript natively (most cheap printers don't) you need some kind of >> converting filter. For my canon i550, i'm using apsfilter combined >> with ghostscript, both available as packages/ports. >> >> Dont know if /usr/local/bin/smbprint in your printcap is some filter >> like that or where it comes from. Can't find it in any port. >> >> /Alexander >> > It's not local printing. It's an HP OfficeJet hung on a Windows XP machine. > >
Unless your printer supports postsript natively (most cheap printers don't) you need some kind of converting filter.
