[NMLUG] Linux and Windows printer drivers?

[niosop at gmail.com (Matthew Bowie)]

Does it support generic PostScript?  If so, you should be able to use that.
Most network printers now days support either PostScript or have PCL5/6
emulation, so you could use the standard PS or PCL CUPS drivers.  You might
not get access to all the features, but you could at least print.

If it uses a proprietary protocol (like the HP3500n's did when they first
came out), then you can do a really round about method of printing by
installing ghostscript and some utils on a Windows machine, and having it
act as a relay for the Linux machine, but check the other options first as
it's a PITA.

As for Linux leveraging Windows printer drivers, maybe you're thinking about
ndiswrapper leveraging Window's wireless drivers?  I haven't heard about
anything similar for printing, but if you do find something that does this,
please post about it, it would be handy.

Matt

On 8/29/07, Jody Harris <havoc at harrisdev.com> wrote:
>
> I was thinking that there was a way that Linux could leverage Windows
> printer drivers. I can't seem to find any coherent information on that.
>
> Was it just a dream?
>
> We have a Minolta photocopier/network printer at work that I would like to
> be able to print to. (As a quality-of-life thing.) Minolta doesn't publish
> Linux print drivers for that line of products, just for the desktop
> products.
>
> Is there any hope/help?
>
> thanks,
> jody
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