[Wine] Re: Newbie Problem: need Windows Printer Driver?

Daniel Skorka skorka at gmx.net
Mon Mar 19 00:50:20 CDT 2007


rainer <gemauer at web.de> wrote:
> Most of the tutorials in the net are describing how to print at all or to
> print with a special printer, but I couldn't find anything that describes
> how to show the emulated application a "windows"-printerdriver.
> I installed the driver for my printer (Brother HL-1430) via the driver-CD
> and the setup there, but that did not work.

Trying to install a windows driver under wine is pointless. If you have
CUPS correctly set up, your printer should be available under wine. If
you compile wine yourself, you will need to have the CUPS development
package installed at compile time.

Daniel


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