[Wine]Using Printer

david thompson david at 123four.fsnet.co.uk
Fri Jan 14 04:20:39 CST 2005


Have you got libcups installed?

Don Flinn wrote:

>>Am Do, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:48:56 -0500 schrieb Don Flinn:
>>    
>>
>>>>>Am So, Jan 09, 2005 at 11:24:09 -0500 schrieb Don Flinn:
>>>>>How do I set up my local printer (run from FC3), to be usable by windows
>>>>>applications under wine?  Under windows I would go Start -> Printers and
>>>>>Fax -> Add a printer -> ...    
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>If you are using CUPS you don't have to do anything. Just start your
>>>>windows application and print. Your printers are already there. You can
>>>>not use windows printer drivers with Wine.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>Regards
>>>>	Joachim
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Thank you for your suggestions.
>>>
>>>My printer is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf and I can print from
>>>programs running outside wine, so I assume cups is working ok.  I must
>>>be missing some setup internal to wine.  I am using wine 20041201.  The
>>>programs I'm trying to run under wine say that no printer is installed
>>>and when I go to the printer setup in, for example quickbooks, it tells
>>>me to go to windows and install the printer.  I checked some other
>>>programs running under wine and I can't print from them also.
>>>      
>>>
>>IN the config the region [spooler] must be commented out with ; in front
>>of each line.
>>
>>Regards
>>	Joachim 
>>    
>>
>
>Joachim
>
>The spooler section of my wine config is as below. This is untouched
>from the 20041201 source tree and as you can see not commented out.  I
>suspect that LPT1 should have a different incantation.  Could you give
>the command to me, if that's the problem?
>
>[spooler]
>"FILE:" = "tmp.ps"
>"LPT1:" = "|lpr"
>"LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -"
>"LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"
>
>(Bill, I haven't tried standing on a chair and reciting poetry - yet :-)
>
>Don
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