Re: [SLUG] USB Printing

[Gonzalo Servat]

Hi Edwin,

On 17/02/2003 10:08 AM +1100 Edwin Humphries wrote:

We have an Epson Stylus Color 1160 printer that we'd like to make
available from the  server (RH7.2 with SAMBA). It's already running a
laser printer, and has no other  parallel port available.

So it seems the only option is to install a USB card and configure the
printer using  that. Does anyone know of any possible issues with this
approach?

Either use the printer via USB, or get another parallel card. Probably easier to install a USB card.

The printer itself is reported by linuxprinting.org as being fully linux
compatible.

I'm not sure if you require help sharing the printer on your network, but I recently setup CUPS and instead of sharing cups printers over Samba, I simply used IPP from Windows 2000 machines (IPP is native in Windows 2000/XP and I beleive there is a patch to get Windows 95/98 machines to talk IPP) and it works very nicely. :)

HTH,
Gonzalo.

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