John Andersen wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: >> I have an unsupported USB Lexmark P3450 printer (paperweight according >> to http://openprinting.org). >> Is it still possible to share this printer, as RAW, with cups and samba >> to Windows machines? >> I can see the printer on the Win clients and see print jobs in the CUPS >> status window - but no spooling to printer. > > It is far easier to put it on a windows machine and then > have cups share it as a raw printer with an "smb backend" > (Cups hands it off to windows to print). > > That way you get the spooling benefit of cups but the > printer driver issue is handled by windows. > > > > > my recommendation would be to alternatively do it extremly easy: scrap that printer, buy something that works greatly from HP. see http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/index.html before you buy.
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