Howto for connecting to an Epson Aculaser C900 on a XP box
I have a Epson Aculaser C900 laser printer on a XP box which I want to print to from my linux laptop. Anyone know of an howto for this setup Sean
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:14 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
I have a Epson Aculaser C900 laser printer on a XP box which I want to print to from my linux laptop. Anyone know of an howto for this setup
Hummm. Share the printer from XP and configure as an smb printer in cups? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Thursday 16 June 2005 22:26, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:14 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
I have a Epson Aculaser C900 laser printer on a XP box which I want to print to from my linux laptop. Anyone know of an howto for this setup
Hummm.
Share the printer from XP and configure as an smb printer in cups?
Tried that and when I do a test print, all I get in the XP server thingy is Error - Printing - Spooling. I have a feeling that this printer cannot be used as such Sean
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:41 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
On Thursday 16 June 2005 22:26, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:14 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
I have a Epson Aculaser C900 laser printer on a XP box which I want to print to from my linux laptop. Anyone know of an howto for this setup
Hummm.
Share the printer from XP and configure as an smb printer in cups?
Tried that and when I do a test print, all I get in the XP server thingy is Error - Printing - Spooling. I have a feeling that this printer cannot be used as such
Did you try using different drivers in cups? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Friday 17 June 2005 00:12, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:41 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
On Thursday 16 June 2005 22:26, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:14 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
I have a Epson Aculaser C900 laser printer on a XP box which I want to print to from my linux laptop. Anyone know of an howto for this setup
Hummm.
Share the printer from XP and configure as an smb printer in cups?
Tried that and when I do a test print, all I get in the XP server thingy is Error - Printing - Spooling. I have a feeling that this printer cannot be used as such
Did you try using different drivers in cups?
Yeah, I looked then at the cups site and it says it is not supported as such, I then checked google and there is a cups ppd on sf.net but it needs a set of rpms that require lpr to be installed and lpr cannot be on the same system as cups according to yast. So I will have to do more checking Sean
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:14 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
I have a Epson Aculaser C900 laser printer on a XP box which I want to print to from my linux laptop. Anyone know of an howto for this setup
According to linuxprinting.org, this printer is a paperweight. You could check your XP box to see if the driver there used a .ppd file. If it did, you could use this as the driver printing through samba. If not, it doesn't look good. Check http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-AcuLaser_C900 -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On Friday 17 June 2005 15:52, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:14 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
I have a Epson Aculaser C900 laser printer on a XP box which I want to print to from my linux laptop. Anyone know of an howto for this setup
According to linuxprinting.org, this printer is a paperweight. You could check your XP box to see if the driver there used a .ppd file. If it did, you could use this as the driver printing through samba. If not, it doesn't look good. Check http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-AcuLaser_C900
Sadly it was all I could afford at the time but it is actually a very good printer and I would not change it. I will check what u say Sean
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2005-06-17 at 09:52 -0500, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
According to linuxprinting.org, this printer is a paperweight.
There is a very roundabout method, then. In linux, you print to postscript file, send the file to the windows, machine, print there the file; if the printer is not ps (which I supposse it isn't), there are a bunch of programas that could print it using the native drivers. Probably, even gs for windows. No t for a hurry, of course. I don't know if the process could be automated, though. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFCsysTtTMYHG2NR9URArhlAJ9Uv6BoFDNO5kMpbnwJvUHuZQQ6hACeLYWd z8mod3CvejxGwKxwR33/1r4= =Rg9A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Friday 17 June 2005 20:57, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2005-06-17 at 09:52 -0500, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
According to linuxprinting.org, this printer is a paperweight.
There is a very roundabout method, then. In linux, you print to postscript file, send the file to the windows, machine, print there the file; if the printer is not ps (which I supposse it isn't), there are a bunch of programas that could print it using the native drivers. Probably, even gs for windows.
No t for a hurry, of course. I don't know if the process could be automated, though.
It is very rare that I print anythign the wife does most of the printing and the printer is localted her laptop. I will play around and see what I can do Sean
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