OK: I'll bite:
I bought one of the last of their color lasers before they bought QMS. Ihave a magic-color laser. For windows I use their Windows driver. I used their web based software to do administration/queue management on it. The quick answer is: It isn't quick! IT's based on a network/printer controller from the peerless corporation which makes the firmware, as well as the TCP software onboard Here's your first hints: 1) Use LPR/lpd. (I have a UNIX System 5/Sun background) 2) set it up in *NIX first. (use LPR) 3) After it works, using LPR, Then perhaps it might work. Of course this is advice coming from the shoemaker's child, as I only have this printer running on a stand-alone PC. (who has the darn time to do this--it isn;t a full-time job for me, it's my FRIGGING HOME!) but the stuff on peerless is accurate, etc. BTW: OT: does anyone have/know how to burn a SIMM (?) strip with Postscript on it (or know where to buy the peerless PS ROM?) Mitch B --- On Mon 04/15, Peter Blajev wrote: > Recently we bought a Minolta 251f printer/copier and I'm trying > to share it using SAMBA-2.2.1a and CUPS-1.1.12. The printer has > a network module and it's plugged into the network. > > I'll start with the question: > "Has anyone able to get similar Minolta printer to work with > SAMBA?" > > Here is what happened when I tried. > > The original drivers that came with the printer didn't work. If > I print from Windows'98 SAMBA creates an empty spool file and > send it to CUPS. If I print from W'NT the print job disappeared and > when I rebooted the machine I got a message saying the I have a > print job in the queue. There are no errors in the SAMBA or CUPS log > files. > On the other hand the same drivers work when I use Win'NT as a print > server > instead of SAMBA. > > Minolta Support recommended to use some old Minolta PCL driver for W'98 > and > HP LaserJet 4 PCL driver for Win'NT and everything work fine > but in this scenario I can't setup an automatic driver download. > Also we are losing a lot of printer features using HP driver on > Minolta printer. > > I don't think that I'm the only one who has a Minolta printer and > tried to share it using SAMBA so please if you are able to do that > drop me a line. > > Any suggestions are highly appreciated. > > Thanks > Peter > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > ------------------------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
