Subject: Desktop Printer Util...
From: sth@hbconcoctions.com
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 17:51:02 EDT
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Brice Ruth wrote:
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> On a different note ... has anyone ever printed to an lpd spool via the
> "Desktop Printer Utility" ?? I'm having some issues and I can't quite
> nail them down ...
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I'd be curious to hear about this as well; for the last several months
we've been trying (mostly in vain) to get our network's Macs to print to a
Xerox P12 laser printer that's hanging off an AXIS 540+ micro printserver.
The salient point is that this printer is not postscript-compatible, and
I've been struggling with apsfilter/magicfilter and netatalk to gain a
satisfactory solution to this problem.
Last attempt had an lpd queue which did nothing but pass the print data
thru a postscript-to-pcl filter and then respool to another queue which
then blasted this data at the AXIS. The idea was/is that the Macs would
print (preferably via the DPU) to the Linux machine (LinuxPPC 2.2.6-15,
currently), which would in turn make the appropriate translations and pass
the results to the AXIS and print correctly. Am I off my rocker in
thinking that this should work?
Comments would be appreciated,
-sth
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