Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-10 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:37:36PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: | D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Will unzip work on .exe files? | | Yes, if they're self-extracting zips. Oh, cool! It's good to know that. Thanks -D

Re: zip utility (was Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba))

2001-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:54:43PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > Huh? You can use the program zip, available for Linux. You don't need to > > use a Win machine. Be careful when you extract it, though. The nearly > > convention that tar.gz archive

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-10 Thread Alan Shutko
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will unzip work on .exe files? Yes, if they're self-extracting zips. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Simon says, "Give me ALL your taglines!"

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-10 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: d> Will unzip work on .exe files? Yes. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>HASMAT--HA Software Methods & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional

zip utility (was Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba))

2001-07-10 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Huh? You can use the program zip, available for Linux. You don't need to > use a Win machine. Be careful when you extract it, though. The nearly > convention that tar.gz archives use that the files will be unpacked into > their own directory is not alwa

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-10 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:11:17PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: | > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:29:52AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: | > | You can probably find one in | > | ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/printerdrivers/win/all/ppdfiles/ . Docs | > | > I found several

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-10 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:29:52AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > | D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > That's a nice idea . . . now where do I find such a thing? > | > | You can probably find one in > | ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/printerdrivers/win/

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:33:05PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:29:52AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > | D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > That's a nice idea . . . now where do I find such a thing? > | > | You can probably find one in > | ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/p

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-10 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:29:52AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: | D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > That's a nice idea . . . now where do I find such a thing? | | You can probably find one in | ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/printerdrivers/win/all/ppdfiles/ . Docs I found several, I'll try th

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-10 Thread Alan Shutko
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's a nice idea . . . now where do I find such a thing? You can probably find one in ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/printerdrivers/win/all/ppdfiles/ . Docs on the PPD format are probably somewhere on Adobe's site, though I've never really done any modificati

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-10 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:41:30PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: | > | probably find a specific PPD for your printer (or PS card), which | > | would eliminate the conversion to PCL, give you accurate margins, and | > | enable any features the printer has (such as pap

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: > | probably find a specific PPD for your printer (or PS card), which > | would eliminate the conversion to PCL, give you accurate margins, and > | enable any features the printer has (such as paper tray selection). > > That's a nice idea . . . now where do I f

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:28:10PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: | D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Either the printer has a PS interpreter in it (my LJIIIp has one as an | > add-on card) or you need to convert the PS into its flavor of PCL. | [...] | > I am using CUPS with my printer, and acco

CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-09 Thread Alan Shutko
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Either the printer has a PS interpreter in it (my LJIIIp has one as an > add-on card) or you need to convert the PS into its flavor of PCL. [...] > I am using CUPS with my printer, and according to the LCD > it is getting PCL data through lp0 even though I sent

Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba

2001-07-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
One alternative is magicfilter: apt-get install magicfilter you can then use magicfilterconfig to set up the printer. It's pretty hard to mess up, and the resulting setup lets you send pretty much anything: text, postscript, dvi, pdf, graphics files, etc., and they are recognized and printed. --

Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:18:06AM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: | Hello, | | I'm trying to print from my Woody to an HP on a Win9x machine, I | currently can print text (using LPRng and the smbprint script as input | filter) but I'm clueless as to the way to print postcript files. Has | anyone done

Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba

2001-07-09 Thread Neil Durant
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I'm trying to print from my Woody to an HP on a Win9x machine, I currently can print text (using LPRng and the smbprint script as input filter) but I'm clueless as to the way to print postcript files. Has anyone done something like this or has an idea on h

LaserJet Plus and Samba

2001-07-09 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, I'm trying to print from my Woody to an HP on a Win9x machine, I currently can print text (using LPRng and the smbprint script as input filter) but I'm clueless as to the way to print postcript files. Has anyone done something like this or has an idea on how it might be done. TIA jorge