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Re: Printing via lpr to Win NT 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Mon Oct 21 18:37:26 1996
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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 21 Oct 1996 12:45:13 GMT
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In article <54fmfn$spr@halon.vggas.com>, hartr@interweft.com.au says...
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>Hi
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>With some help (and reading what I had typed as opposed to what I
>*thought* I had types), I am now in the position that I can print ASCI
>text OK to a Windows NT 4 printer set up using the LPD server that comes
>with NT4. The printer is a HPDJ 850C.
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>This works great for ASCII files, but if I send a formatted print job on
>Linus through the gs filter and then out, I get garbage.
Create a sample DJ file using gs manually and send it to the printer using
smbclient -- break the testing up into smaller pieces.
>Getting colour printing to all the machines is turning out to be a BIG
>problem (I would put the printer on Linux and print using the NT4 lpr
>system - but the WinNT4 lpr seems not to work...)
You don't have to use it. You could export the printer from the Linux box
using Samba as well as lpd.
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