Discussions > Mac OS X > Mac OS X > Getting Started and General Use > Print Center & Preview > HOWTO: Print to Networked Inkjets
It references the following (a kit to help solve the problem you are having):
http://homepage.mac.com/balthisar/HPNetworkInkjet.sit
It looks like they have come some way since I last looked into this.
On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 03:23 PM, Avram Dorfman wrote:
Actually, the printer is connected to the printer port on my SMC Barricade
DSL/Cable gateway. It understands LPR, but it's not a platform I can install
ghostscript on.
My hope was to have ghostscript do the filtering locally and just push it to
the print "server" on the gateway. I think it's worth figuring out how to do
this because it also means anyone on OS X could print to any (gs supported)
printer on a LAN with a built-in print server.
I'd be happy to write up a How-To that would help the world with this, but
first I have to know "how to" 8-)
When you says "use a ppd" from <x>, do you mean feed that to my OSX box? Or
configure the remote print server to use it?
While we're at it, I don't actually understand how to tell ghostscript to
print to a remote printer at all. Can it only do so through a local lpd? Or
can it do so directly?
Thanks,
Avram
On 4/1/02 4:48 PM, "Allen Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This comes up occasionally on various lists. It's fairly straightforward
if the printer is connected to a remote unix/linux box. Just use the LPR
support in the print center and a PPD from gimp-print or cupsys to get
all the various options supported by the ghostscript driver running on
the remote box.
It could probably be done the same way to the local box (LPR to
127.0.0.1 and configure cupsys or some lpd server to run the right
ghostscript stuff locally). I think you'd need to install some other lpd.
The missing piece is a generic usb/lp driver like linux has (assuming
you are using a USB printer). lpd or cupsys need a character device to
send the data to the printer. In linux land there is a generic USB lp
driver that will provide a /dev/lp0 (or 1 2 3, whatever). I haven't seen
such a beast for darwin.
Most people who want to do this seem to do what I've done which is print
to a remote LPD server that does the ghostscript processing and spools
to the actual printer. That way I can print from my mac, my
freebsd/linux boxes and my windows game box. All using the same
gimp-print drivers and ghostscript.
On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 12:28 PM, Avram Dorfman wrote:
Hey Everyone,
Has anyone got OSX printing from actual applications through
ghostscript to
actual printers?
I have a non-postcript printer which OSX doesn't support.
I've been reading ghostscript documentation until my eyes bleed, but I
can't
seem to get the big picture. I found the section on "setting up a
ghostscript lpr filter", but I don't see how to tie that into the OSX
center, to lpr, or to an actual remote network printer.
The /etc/printcap file says that it is only consulted in single user
mode,
and NetInfo is used otherwise. But the output of ghostscripts'
lprsetup.sh
script is an insert for a printcap file. Can this info be put in
NetInfo?
And how do I get ghostscript to print to a remote lpr printer, or get
OSX to
spool ghostscript's output to such a printer?
I figured this would be a faq - printing to an unsupported printer via
ghostscript - but I did search (thus my earlier question, and didn't
find
anything).
-Avram
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