On Network printing, I have two computers and router. In network printing does each computer have to have Drivers for the Printer ?
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 15:36 -0400, Jim wrote:
On Network printing, I have two computers and router. In network printing does each computer have to have Drivers for the Printer ?
No, only one that acts as the print server for the other. -- ======================================================================= All constants are variables. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
On 09/19/2009 04:31 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 15:36 -0400, Jim wrote:
On Network printing, I have two computers and router. In network printing does each computer have to have Drivers for the Printer ?
No, only one that acts as the print server for the other.
======================================================================= All constants are variables. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
I have a XP and a Linux FC11 computers, and if the printer I get is new and no print drivers are out for Linux , then you say the windows computer will act as a print server ? In that case how do I setup XP as the print server ?
Thanks for your responds.
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 17:03 -0400, Jim wrote:
On 09/19/2009 04:31 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 15:36 -0400, Jim wrote:
On Network printing, I have two computers and router. In network printing does each computer have to have Drivers for the Printer ?
No, only one that acts as the print server for the other.
======================================================================= All constants are variables. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
I have a XP and a Linux FC11 computers, and if the printer I get is new and no print drivers are out for Linux , then you say the windows computer will act as a print server ? In that case how do I setup XP as the print server ?
Thanks for your responds.
I admit I assumed we were talking about all Linux machines. If you want to do cups printing using ipp protocol to work from a XP machine you need to run IIS (Internet Information Services) on the XP machine. Then that machine will use ipp (cups protocol)) for handling printers. Sharing the Windows printers will allow the XP machine to be a print server just as a Linux machine would using the Windows drivers. I have too admit I have never tried this (IIS does not run by default when your install XP) but that is what the documentation says. -- ======================================================================= Never have children, only grandchildren. -- Gore Vidal ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 15:36 -0400, Jim wrote:
On Network printing, I have two computers and router. In network printing does each computer have to have Drivers for the Printer ?
How you do it will answer that question.
Typically, using a Linux box as a print server means that the server will drive the printer that's directly connected to it, using drivers for that particular printer, and all the remote machines will send common PostScript data to the server to print.
It's also possible for each computer to pre-render data for a specific printer, using a local driver, and for the server to have a raw queue that accepts pre-rendered data for its printer. Though this tends to be messier, as each computer needs configuring for the printer, and you'd avoid doing this unless it was the only way to access the remote server (which can be the case if the remote server is Windows, and you can't figure out doing PostScript over the network).