Come on guys! you're not giving up that fast are you? I've got a Canon
BJC6000 printing in Linux, cause I don't use windows anymore, and I'm
using a generic HP printer driver to do it with. Canon offer '0' support
for Linux. They're WORSE than HP when it comes to printer support for
Linux. If anything is considered a "win-printer" the one I've got is.
One of the things I've noticed about Linux Mandrake is that you can
convert your print que to appear as another type of printer and thereby
utilize your current printer. This doesn't work for some printers, mine is
one of them, but HP's are fairly forgiving when it comes to being willing
to print in less than Windows environments. Give it another try. If you
haven't already, try a few of the more generic drivers.
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Mark
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Darryl Gibson wrote:
> Stephen Bosch wrote:
>
> > If it's not HP-PCL or PostScript, you are going to have trouble running it
> > on Linux. If it's a true Winprinter, you can give up now; at least if it
> > has some kind of native language you have a hope of getting/writing a
> > driver.
>
> I'm stuck with a win printer too, and was wondering if this is a
> feasible work aroound.
>
> I'm going to setup my winbox as a dual boot machine, and use it as a
> firewall, and for the stuff I can't do in Linux yet. Could I also set it
> up as a printserver, and pass print jobs from the linux side to the
> windoze side, and then print use my win printer?
>
> Darryl Gibson
> Linux Neophyte (tm)
> RLU # 182668
> This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE
>
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