Short version of a long story: My wife and I just got a Dell V313w. It's a great printer, we love it. We just can't use it. We're a Mac family and it seems this printer requires it's Window's based software to fully enable it's capability (scanning and sending over WiFi for example). Mac OS X will not print to it directly over any connection methods (USB, WiFi, SMB Share) due to lack of appropriate driver. I could run Dell's proprietary software in a virtual machine but I would rather not use up that much memory just to print. And Bootcamping it would be silly. Finally we get down to the question: What are the chances of getting Dell's software running on Snow Leopard using Wine? When I attempt the install, it says the Windows Spooler Service is not running. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
On 16 February 2010 22:20, ajbarnes <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> My wife and I just got a Dell V313w. It's a great printer, we love it. We just can't use it. > We're a Mac family and it seems this printer requires it's Window's based software to fully enable it's capability (scanning and sending over WiFi for example). > Mac OS X will not print to it directly over any connection methods (USB, WiFi, SMB Share) due to lack of appropriate driver. > I could run Dell's proprietary software in a virtual machine but I would rather not use up that much memory just to print. And Bootcamping it would be silly.TinyXP is actually surprisingly small and, for a single program, would run fine in 128MB.> Finally we get down to the question: What are the chances of getting Dell's software running on Snow Leopard using Wine? When I attempt the install, it says the Windows Spooler Service is not running.If it's a printer *driver* you haven't a hope and should rely on CUPS (which Mac OS X and Linux use, and Apple actually develops now). But it appears you're talking about a userland program, i.e. what Wine appears to run. So there may be hope! Even if I don't know what it is. - d.
David Gerard wrote:> > TinyXP is actually surprisingly small and, for a single program, would > run fine in 128MB. > > If it's a printer *driver* you haven't a hope and should rely on CUPS > (which Mac OS X and Linux use, and Apple actually develops now). > > But it appears you're talking about a userland program, i.e. what Wine > appears to run. So there may be hope! Even if I don't know what it is. > > > - d.Interesting thoughts David, thanks for your reply. The driver is included with Dell's software suite that makes all the bells and whistles work. I really would like the feature of scanning an image, and it send via WiFi over my network. When I try installing the Dell printing software using WineBottler on Snow Leopard, the setup starts and says: "The Windows Spooler Service cannot be started. Installation of your printer cannot continue until you correct this problem."
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 16:20 -0600, ajbarnes wrote:> Short version of a long story: > > My wife and I just got a Dell V313w. It's a great printer, we love it. We just can't use it. >It's at least partially CUPS-supported. As OS X apparently also uses CUPS it seems to be worth following up on. I'm a Linux person, not an OS-X person so can't say more. See: http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Dell-V313w Martin
How does the WiFi work? Is it just a regular network that would allow filesharing to send the files to print? If so, you could just connect to that network... If it uses some other (possibly proprietary) method, you'll probably need the driver and will be out of luck if it's not available in CUPS.