[Wine] Re: (Still) no printing possible in wine 0.9.15

Duane Clark dclark at akamail.com
Fri Jun 23 13:50:42 CDT 2006


Sven Rudolph wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> since my first posting with the same subject was somehow incomplete, i
> decided to repost my question.
> 
> 
> I just installed wine-0.9.15, because I wasn't able to print with
> wine-0.9.8, but unfortunately the problem persists.

I happened to have two systems running Fedora core 4, with CUPS 1.1.23. 
I have one system set up with the printers (an HP and an Epson), and the 
other printer sends prints to it remotely, as:
ipp://kotao/printers/hp
I "added" the printer via the web browser interface. That does add an 
entry into the /etc/printcap file:

# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /etc/cups/printers.conf file.  All changes to this file
# will be lost.
hp_kotao|:rm=taveuni:rp=hp_kotao:

where hp_kotao is the remote printer. It prints fine from Linux apps, 
and also prints fine from Wine. Currently I have Wine-0.9.12 on that 
machine, but I'll update and try again.

I believe Wine attempts to use runtime detection of the printer system, 
and may basically just use the /etc/printcap file for that. I think the 
first thing to determine is why your printer is configured differently 
from mine; that is, why you are not getting a printcap file.




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