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From: brian@aljex.com (Brian K. White)
Subject: Re: Visionfs Prining to USB HP1000 attached & shared on Win98
Date: 17 Mar 2002 10:23:22 -0800
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Chip Webster <cwcomputer@sc.rr.com> wrote in message news:<3C93F17C.4020608@sc.rr.com>...
> Thanks for reply , but question was has anyone used this printer
> successfully. Unfortunately this is for a client that is 4 States away.
> Don't have printer or manual.
don't be put off by my confrontational style, I did in fact point out
what is probably the best-working and easiest-to-impliment way to go
ahead and use this printer just the way you need (IE: it's hooked up
to a windows PC)
PrintWizard at www.anzio.com
One of it's functions is to act as a sort of uber-printer-driver, you
install it on the PC, and from unix, via several different possible
methods, send it plain text or several varieties of pre-formatted text
(hp-pcl, html, epson/ibmpro dot-matrix, pwml, ps, ...) and it will use
windows to print it sucessfully to any printer that windows can print
to, including these "windows-only" printers.
I've used it and it works, and because of the way it works, I don't
have to have tested with this specific printer to be 99.999% sure it
will work for you.
I know it works with at least a couple different printers,
I know it just uses a windows graphics/printing API and doesn't really
know or care what kind of printer you actually have, or how it's
connected, so long as the printer is correctly installed and working
in windows itself.
Thus,
As long as you can go into Start-->Settings-->Printers
right-click on the printer in question,
select properties,
and print a test-page sucessfully.
And as long as you have some kind of connection between the server and
PC,
(this can be as little as a direct dial-up, or a tcp terminal session
from a AOL dialup (meaning no predictable IP for the PC), tcp
connections from behind foirewalls on both server and client ends...
so long as the terminal emulator supports passthru-print, and it
doesn't even have to be anzio either. Or it can be any of the other
common possibilities if the networking permits them: IE: smb, lpd,
hpnp, raw tcp (netcat), spool directory, ...)
Then it will work.
You'll probably have to use pcanywhere or vnc to do the install and
setup on the client pc. I don't recall how complicated the setup was
in detail. it was just a few minutes for me, and surely the same for
you, but users are notoriously bad at following directions and reading
minds and knowing when what they are looking at does not match what we
are telling them about and somehow always managing to find the *wrong*
"little yellow folder with the up-arrow in it" when there should only
be *one*...
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Brian K. White -- brian@aljex.com -- http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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