I would like to know if it is possible to have a Linux client, running on openSUSE, to use SAMBA as a means of printing through a Windows 7 PC, to a network printer without the use of printer drivers being used on the client?
If this is not possible, could someone perhaps assist me in finding the correct drivers for a CS-5050 printer?
On Wed February 8 2012 08:46 pm, tcal wrote:
>
> I would like to know if it is possible to have a Linux client, running
> on openSUSE, to use SAMBA as a means of printing through a Windows 7 PC,
> to a network printer without the use of printer drivers being used on
> the client?
>
> If this is not possible, could someone perhaps assist me in finding the
> correct drivers for a CS-5050 printer?
>
tcal;
As far as I know, generic printing from Linux to Windows is not possible,
although it is possible I’m wrong. ( The converse is possible, that is generic
printing from Windows to Samba/CUPS by using a postscript driver in Windows.)
You did not identify the manufacturer of the printer, but I assume it is
Kyocera(Copystar). The Copystar CS-5050 is a postscript printer and there is
a PPD here:
If that does not work, have you tried just the native postscript PPD or a PPD
for a similar model by Kyocera?
I would suggest you try setting the printer up directly in cups:
https://localhost:631/
P. V.
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