wine users - Jul 2009 - Help printing please!!!

Hi everyone, well I need some help using wine and printing, my problem is very
specific.

In a little market Im workin now, the owners decided to run Linux in all the
computers, everything went perfect, even the control and accountability software
that was running over Visual Fox Pro, till I deal with printing...

Thing is that if I use one function of the application that prints a report for
example it works fine, I can select the printer and send the order and it works
without problems, BUT when I try to use the MOST IMPORTANT function that is to
send a sell ticket to the ticket printer it doesn't do anything.

The differences betwen both situations is that in the last one the program just
print without any dialog, son the printers must be included in the configuration
panel of the application, in this case is a network printer that works fine
under linux using a print-server. In the original installation the printer
appears in the configuration like \\printer1\tickets and it works in windows
computers.

I believe is a problem in the way I use to put the printer under wine, because
if in the other way works perfect when a dialog appears I don't know why the
same printer does not work when it use the internal configuration in the
program.

What I should do?? How I must put a printer in the program so wine can recognize
it and send the print order???

If the network is the problem with wine is there a way to make wine believes all
the printers installed on the linux system with cups even if they are network
share, can be readed by wine like locals???


Please help me...this is the only problem that stop us to use the entire
software under linux, all the other features works perfect under wine,
eveything...it just the print issue that I can't make it work...


Thanks-...

[quote="estranged1977"]If the network is the problem with wine is
there a way to make wine believes all the printers installed on the linux system
with cups even if they are network share, can be readed by wine like
locals?/quote]
Wine works with all printers as local printers. And that's how they should
be configured in your application.

In other words, you can not use "\\printer1\tickets" - it won't
work.

Martin Gregorie wrote:
> The OP says he has CUPS up and running. CUPS can handle network printers,
so he should configure the printer on CUPS, if he hasn't already done it,
and then set Wine to use the printer via CUPS.
Right, but you still can't tell Wine to use "\\printer1\tickets"
printer. You need to use valid CUPS printer names (which ever those might be -
dunno, never needed to specify one this way).