*- On 5 Nov, Joe Block wrote about "Re: Printers.." > Brian Servis wrote: >> Samba will make this possible. Just make a local printer available that >> passes the print data from the win machines directly to the printer >> without using a filter. That way you can install the printer driver on >> the win machines and take full advantage of the native win print >> drivers. Read the SMB-HOWTO and the doc in the samba-doc package. > > It's also worth it to set the printer up as a postscript printer as well > on the windows machines - magicfilter will autodetect postscript and > render it using ghostscript. Sometimes you can get better output from > software by using a postscript printer, especially when you're using > Adobe programs. >
Very true. I do this as well. Works great for Word and such when including .eps files in the document. You can also set up some nice 2-up or 4-up print filters using postscript post processing programs in the psutils package. A long standing question though is which postscript printer driver to use on the windows machine? I usally choose an Apple driver since they tend to stick to the true postscript format and don't add proprietary formats like HP sometimes does. I also select the Archive Format in the driver. Someone needs to write a GPL'ed ghostscript windows printer driver(maybe it already exists?). Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
