Printing from new PC without LPT/Serial port to Dot Matrix Printer on Smb Share

[Sanjay Arora]

Hello all

I am trying to configure LPD/LPR or any other raw printing method (non-cups) to print from a Fedora 15 machine that does not have a serial or parallel port. 

While I can create the SMB printer from the Printers GUI screen, it does not get enabled or even print a test page. I think the issue is that Harbour software prints to a device that does not exist. I think I need to create a device file & redirect it to the smb share or something similar....or somehow get Harbour to print to a non-LPT1 device i.e. the samba windows share directly, but maybe I'm wrong.

Can someone please tell me what to do, to enable printing to a non-existant lpt1, which is redirected to a remote windows machine having a shared dot matrix printer.

OR can Harbour be configured to print directly to a Network printer? Any pointers to Linux configurations or Harbour printing code will be greatly appreciated.

With best regards & thanks.

Sanjay.

[Przemysław Czerpak]

On Mon, 03 Oct 2011, Sanjay Arora wrote:

Hi,

> Can someone please tell me what to do, to enable printing to a non-existant
> lpt1, which is redirected to a remote windows machine having a shared dot
> matrix printer.

set printer to "|lpr -Plp_smb"

lp_smb is any printer name defined in your system.

best regards,
Przemek

[Claudia Neumann]

Hi Sanjay,

I have configured all printers local or network or print server to print as raw
printer in CUPS. I even print on an old 24-needle printer as raw printer
connected via an usb-parallel-adapter with CUPS over USB hal device.

In harbour you either do

set printer to " | lpr -P <your-CUPS-Printer-name>"

or

set printer to <filename>

<do some output>

set printer to

run("lpr -P <your-CUPS-Printer-name> <filename>")

or you use hbcups to be found in /contrib.

What exactly do you want to know?

Best regards

Claudia

[Sanjay Arora]

Claudia

Thank you very much for your pointer...I had not modified the SET PRINTER TO line...let me test this & I'll revert with specific problems, if any...

My thanks.

With best regards.

Sanjay.

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