One critically important part of Samba printer configuration is distributing drivers to Windows clients. This task can be accomplished in several different ways. One approach that requires little explanation is to use the driver CD-ROM that came with the printer (or a generic PostScript driver for.
I am onto 64-bit MS Windows 10 and want to print, double-sided if possible, to an older inkjet printer with no windows support attached to a linux Debian Jessie system.
How to Install Printer Drivers on Linux. Or included in the Windows driver itself if the printer is a PostScript printer. If you want to use a printer with. Unix-Linux expert Ken Milberg follows up on his tip, 'Printing from Unix to Linux,' and explains why you're better off not setting up a Linux printer as a generic Postscript device. Generic Postscript 'driver'. Generally, for Postscript printers, you will not need a driver, as all applications produce PostScript. If there are several different PPD files for your printer model and none dedicated for Linux or Unix, the PPD for Windows NT works best in most cases. There is no longer any 'Generic Postscript', but one should be able to use, eg an HP Postscript printer driver to produce the right sort of output. Do you know, would the Ghostscript filter expect the input to be Postscript for a printer like this (I use a filter called 'GDI' or something)? Why can't I find a Generic PCL printer driver on CUPS. Can't find generic postscript drivers on cups. Installing printer driver with CUPS: BNI: Linux - Newbie.
In theory, it would be enough to install the generic MS Windows postscript driver (MS Publisher Color Printer for color or MS Publisher Imagesetter for b/w).
I can set up the printer via ipp print to ipp://[name-of-printserver]:631/printers/[name-of-printer] and print a test page alright.
Now, I want the MS Windows printer to have the features the cups ppd of this printer supplies (double-side, more trays) and install the 64-bit driver automatically for MS Windows 10 on other 64-bit Windows 10 systems.
What is necessary to achieve this?
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