Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:48:33PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >Ah, you run CUPS. As long as the Mac is running OS X 10.3.something, tell > >the Mac to share its printer(s). Your copy of CUPS on your laptop will > >pick up the shared printers from the Mac. > > this assumes th

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:48 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: [snip] > > ... so... maybe my problem is solved. but is there any possiblity at > all of a package that scans (usb| parport) & tries to match the printers >

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on my USB port & print; I don't have any other reliable way of getting data into the printer (no cd-burner, mac's have no disk drives). Macs have disk drives. Zip dri

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on > my USB port & print; I don't have any other reliable way of getting > data into the printer (no cd-burner, mac's have no disk drives). Macs have disk drives. Zip drives, floppy d

automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I am going off to a conference where I will have to print a copy of my talk from my laptop (aging i386 debian/sid) to a friend's printer (no idea what the printer model is & no way to find out, attached to a mac running os X). I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on my US