On Wednesday 22 May 2019 02:52:31 am mick crane wrote: > On 2019-05-22 04:40, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Its working now, and I have other irons in the fire, like how do I > > print > > to a printer shared by cups, from a win 10 Home edition. > > I've only ever done it with networked printers. > You may get lucky with cupsd on linux box that can print if you let > windows search for a printer.
I do have an MFC at .21 on the local net. One of Brothers tabloid sized Color inkjets. Windows 10-home doesn't seem to be aware of it. What I need for this job is a bare-a$$ed color printer, but all I could find at Staples last week were physicly huge MFC's. Wally has some really cheap $40 ones, but I suspect that I'd have to buy one per job because the heads would dry up and clog between uses. Back when I was a fan of epsons, the cost of the inks was $250/year just to print the nightly amanda reports to exercise the printer. That worked out to about $1 a sheet and it still got clogged. I didn't do that with the last one and wound up with the head hopelessly clogged, would not clean, 2 weeks after I parked it on the table from new in the box. $500 for an AI1. For this, I need something that fits in a briefcase, and Just Works, maybe once a month. Is such a beast even made today? Doubtfull. > Otherwise the printer to select will be, I forget exactly, may be > "local printer" > > http://ipaddress_of_pc_running_cupsd:631/exact_name_cups_identifies_pr >inter_with. > > good luck > > mick Thanks Mick. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
