Re: Linux and Windows printer drivers?
"Wesley J. Landaker" <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday 29 August 2007 16:01:49 Jody Harris wrote: > I was thinking that there was a way that Linux could leverage Windows > printer drivers. I can't seem to find any coherent information on that. > > Was it just a dream? > > We have a Minolta photocopier/network printer at work that I would like > to be able to print to. (As a quality-of-life thing.) Minolta doesn't > publish Linux print drivers for that line of products, just for the > desktop products. > > Is there any hope/help? You may be able to get it working under Linux -- I'd exhaust that avenue before moving on. But if all else fails, run Windows as a print server in VM (QEMU or VMware) on your Linux machine. This is a pain, but it pretty much always works. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[email protected]> <xmpp:[email protected]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 _______________________________________________ NMLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.b9.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nmlug
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