[cups.general] Inkjet printer utilities...

[Martyn Hill]

Helge

Thank you - that is helpful. In fact, the printers are all connected to
Netgear LPD print-servers with the spool held on a FreeBSD box. Does this
scenario count as "directly connected"?

Martyn Hill
Network Administrator
St James Independent School
London
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Helge Blischke" <H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: cups.general
To: <cups at easysw.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [cups.general]


> Martyn Hill wrote:
> >
> > Dear list
> >
> > (apologies in advance if this question has been addressed before - just
> > subscribed to the list.)
> >
> > We are currently investigating the deployment of a new printserver at
our
> > school.
> >
> > We use Samba/Samba-TNG and automatic driver downloads (topic for another
> > list) to our Windows clients
> > but are very much interested in the use of the software RIP facility
offered
> > by cups/ghostscript for our non PS inkjet printers.
> >
> > We have a number of Epson and HP inkjets in house and as the network
admin,
> > I regularly have to make use of the printer utilities built in to the
vendor
> > provided Windows print drivers to clean the print heads and such like.
> >
> > Is it possible to access such facilities from the Windows clients via
the
> > CUPS or Windows/Adobe PS drivers when the RIP
> > is implemented by cups/ghostscript?
> >
> > I suspect not, but how has this been dealt with in the past?
> >
> > Any ideas on the subject would be most welcome.
>
> If those printers are directly connected to the Win boxes only (via
> parallel port or USB),
> I think you don't have a chance. If they are accessible from a Linux (or
> other suitable
> UNIX) box, look into the gimp-print project. It supplies a utility to do
> such things
> as head cleaning, ink queries etc.
>
> Helge
>
>
> -- 
> Helge Blischke
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