Hmmm, /me is interested in what's being used out there. How about a web poll? Vote now!!! http://www.mn-linux.org On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote: > | HP Laserjet 1200SE (same as HP-1200 according to HP) > | - HP PCL 6, HP PCL 5e, PostScript® Level 2 emulation > | - 72mb memory > | - I have a PPD from HP.SourceForge (if that helps) > > Does that mean the printer actually speaks PS? If so, you shouldn't need > to do much filtering at all. > > I used to use LPRng + samba for printing. It worked well enough, but some > of the filters were crappy. Every now and then they would barf on some > image. (Text was always fine though.) > > After playing with cups a bit, I really feel that it is the way to go for > UNIX printing. I really like that once I got things setup on the server, > my unix printing clients just had to have > > BrowsePoll myprintserver.home.private:631 > > added to cupsd.conf. And my /etc/printcap (for non cups aware apps) is > just: > > ljet6: > > Nice and simple. The unix clients can print. :) > > One of the best parts of cups is the web interface for setting up your > printer. Just point your browser to http://printserver:631, login, and off > you go. You should be able to setup eveything you need (including the PPD) > from here. > > The cups related stuff I have installed is: > cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-pstoraster, > cupsomatic-ppd (cups printer ppd's from LinuxPrinting.org) > cupsys-client, libcupsys2 > > Those are the debian packages. For slackware, everything is prob in one > tarball. (except for the ppd's) > > And for the windows clients, you want to do something like: > > [global] > printcap name = /etc/printcap.cups > printer admin = user1 user2 > lpq command = lpstat -o%p > lprm command = cancel %p-%j > queuepause command = disable %p > queueresume command = enable %p > > [printers] > comment = All Printers > path = /tmp > create mask = 0700 > printable = Yes > browseable = No > > [ljet6] > path = /tmp > read only = No > create mask = 0700 > guest ok = Yes > printable = Yes > printer name = ljet6 > oplocks = No > share modes = No > > [print$] > path = /home/samba/print > read only = No > guest ok = Yes > hosts allow = 192.168.1. > > All the printing howto's really overcomplicate things. :) > > You can see that I have a print$ share. This took a bit of figuring, but I > got samba to share the windows drivers for my printer so Windows 2000 > clients will just install the farking driver, and not prompt me about it. > It's like, slick. > > Bottom line: cups very good, lprng is ok, and lpd is, well, it's lpd. > > Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org > "I MIGHT be DANGEROUS!" --The Tick > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list