Subject: Re: Having printers other than an Apple Laserwrtiter IINT
From: Carsten Neumann (deltor@snafu.de)
Date: Mon Mar 12 2001 - 20:54:05 EST
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, James Hammett wrote:
> I have a weird setup. Our Netatalk box is also running Samba and
> shares the local appletalk printers to the 95/98/Me/NT boxes.
> Unfortunately the only way to get the PC's to print correctly is to
> tell them to use the "Apple Laserwriter IINT" print driver. (Even if
> its a brand new lexmark with all sorts of bells and whistles). Is
> there any way to tell papd that these are a different type of printer?
>
> thanks,
> james
It looks to me that your problem is not netatalk and papd but Windoze (and probably apsfilter)
related.
I see it this way:
1. You spool your Doze printer files to a spool directory on your Samba server.
2. The data is then sent via pap (not papd!) to your AppleTalk Postscript printer.
I don't know what languages your Lexmark supports, but if you need to switch to another
emulation than Postscript to enable the features you desire, and your Doze-PCs have printer drivers
supporting this, you have use a "raw" device. I.e. a printer spooler which ships the data as-is to
your printer. Usually (for the standard spoolers) apsfilter will always try to convert any data to
Postscript.
To accomplish this you will probably need to install a recent version of apsfilter:
The newest version is something like 6.0.x.
Older versions have problems when sending Non-Postscript data via pap.
Also make sure you have a new version of Ghostscript installed.
The latest of Aladdin Ghostscript is 6.50.
See:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
BTW: since my over 10 years old NEC LC890 doesn't support Postscript Level 2, I use its laserjet
emulation and apsfilter, ghostscript, and pap to print my data.
Works great! :-)
HTH,
Regards
Carsten
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