[Wine]wine printing using CUPS

[Frank Spaan]

wineuser wrote:

> wine at spaantje.xs4all.nl schrieb:
>
>> I'm trying to get my Epson Stylus Color 600 to work with a windows 
>> app using wine.
>> My distr (SuSE 9.2) uses CUPS and works fine, but i can't get it to 
>> work in wine.
>> The manual is not really helping me out.
>>
>> When i try to print i get :
>> fixme:commdlg:PRINTDLG_OpenDefaultPrinter Could not open printer 
>> styluscolor600?!
>> err:psdrv:PSDRV_FindPrinterInfo OpenPrinterA failed with code 1801
>>
>> Can someone help me out ?
>>
>> Frank.
>
>
> I had the same problem using my printer in MS Access. I solved it 
> adding some entries in my wine registry (using regedit) and the 
> win.ini in the fake_windows directory, like described in this 
> tutorial: http://www.la-sorciere.de/Wine-HOWTO/wineprintconfig.html, 
> in the part "Printing with the Internal Postscript Driver in Wine". 
> Seems the tutorial isn't really up to date because I had to use
> [ppd]
> "generic" = "/usr/local/share/wine/generic.ppd"
> instead of [psdrv] ..., and I didn't need the entries for the afm-files.
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I got my printer working !
It was just like you said to use [ppd] ,etc.
And i didn't even had to edit the registry and the .ini file.

Thanks for your help !

Frank