samba - Feb 2005 - Re: About drivers in print$ share

hi all again!

i've solved the previous mail about printer drivers. But i've been 
surprised
by the fact that when i install in a windows client a printer via samba, 
the
driver that it downloads from the server is different from the driver i've
installed in a standalone pc... but they are the same driver!! one 
downloaded
from hp homepage.

So my question is: is there a way from making "fine printing things" 
such as
printing two/four... pages in a single A4 without a intermediate driver 
such as
FinePrint? sorry if i don't explain it very well but my english is not 
the best of
the world.

Thx anyway!!

Xavi

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Xavi wrote:

| So my question is: is there a way from making "fine
| printing things"  such as printing two/four... pages
| in a single A4 without a intermediate driver  such as
| FinePrint? sorry if i don't explain it very well but
| my english is not the best of the world.

These days, it is common to see the advanced feature
of a driver pushed out to the print processor.  Thus
requiring the print server to support server-side rendering
of the print job (a.k.a. EMF printing).  Samba only supports
RAW printing out of the box.

So my advice is to use potentially older drivers that
don't have the UNIDRV.DLL file.  Long term we need a
better solution for this.





cheers, jerry
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