[cups.general] HP 4600 + CUPS + SAMBA

[Helge Blischke]

Alvaro Aguilera wrote:
> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> My company recently bought an HP 4600DN (laser color) printer, the
> printer has a NIC included and I installed it on a Linux (SUSE 8.1)
> spooler that works with CUPS 1.1.15 and Samba 2.2.5. The printer is
> shared as a raw printer with Windows NT machines.
> 
> I've tried using all the drivers provided by HP: pcl3, pcl5, ps but with
> all of them I have had trouble. The one that seems to work better is the
> pcl5 driver but the users still complains about several small but
> annoying issues when they print from Acrobat Reader of Microsoft Office.
> For example not being able to print medium-sized PDFs, problems with of
> alineation, or with the orientation of the paper, etc. etc.
> 
> Is there any way to make this printer work well in my platform?
> 
> I am trying to avoid the use of an NT spooler...
> 
Try configuring the printer with CUPS and then exporting it to your
NT boxes using the cupsaddsmb utility or install the printer
instances on your NT boxes using the IPP port (on NT, you probably
have to install some IPP support package in this latter case).

Helge

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