On 2008-11-29, raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stuart Henderson ha scritto: >> 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. >> > You can install on Windows XP a LPR support
Unless your **> printer <** supports postscript natively (most cheap printers don't) you need some kind of converting filter.
