We're using a couple of HP printers (2200, 4200, 3390) using the HP PCL 6 printer driver. Printer drivers are installed on the samba (3.0.24) box, connecting, driver installation and printing work OK. Problem: using the same driver version with the printer shared by a windows box gives some additional options like - brochure printing - putting serveral pages on one sheet Any Idea why those options are gone from printer settings if the printer is sahred by a samba box and/or how to get them back? Thanks, Martin
Martin Bene schrieb:> We're using a couple of HP printers (2200, 4200, 3390) using the HP PCL > 6 printer driver. > > Printer drivers are installed on the samba (3.0.24) box, connecting, > driver installation and printing work OK. > > Problem: using the same driver version with the printer shared by a > windows box gives some additional options like > - brochure printing > - putting serveral pages on one sheet > > Any Idea why those options are gone from printer settings if the printer > is sahred by a samba box and/or how to get them back? > > Thanks, MartinYou'll also miss options like "watermark" and so. All options that are provided by a custom PrintProcessor are missing. The driver asks the print processor about it's features and Samba (which "emulates" the dump winprint print processor) responses with a very limited set of features. Unfortunatly there's no way to force Windows to execute print processor locally with remotly shared queues. ~ Martin -- Martin Zielinski mz@seh.de Software Development SEH Computertechnik GmbH www.seh.de