On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:27:27AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:28:42PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:04:04PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > My grandson does homework on an XP laptop which connects to our wireless > > > network but all the other computers on the network are Debian. Last > > > year we were told of an HP generic postscript driver, installed it in > > > the XP and could send the documents in postscript format to Cups running > > > on the Debian boxes. It worked then but no longer. He has lost the > > > installation program we downloaded and I can't find it at the HP site. > > > > > > Does anyone know where to find the installation program so we can > > > reinstall the generic postscript driver? > > > > > > Alternately, does anyone know of another solution to this problem? > > > > > > Tom George > > > > > > > What I do is first transform it to a pdf file, then print it with whatever > > printer you have. Under debian, you can use openoffice to do that. With > > windows, I think acrobat can do it for you. > > Adobe has a generic postscript driver but it sucks a but since it puts %%Page #%% > numbers > in wrong places making those appear in printouts sometimes.
Ack! Adobe's Postscript driver is terrible. You can use any postscript
printer driver - I like the lexmark drivers, but and hp printer is not
bad. But this I think is not the best solution.
>
> BUT, the best way to print from Xp, is to print directly to lpr. You can do that
> I think. Win2k allows it at least. Then it will print using printers drivers
> directly - things like magicfilter can cope with this and it will get though
> the filter unchanged. I'm not sure about cups though.
Cups can indeed do this, create a printer using the "raw" driver, then
just print to the appropriate ipp address from XP using whatever
standard windows driver your printer has.
cheers
dc
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