[rescue] Non postscript printers

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:36:25PM +0100, Dan Williams wrote:
> I unfortunatly have a windows only usb printer. After a lot of grief I 
> have managed to get it running under cups with linux, I don't really 
> want to have go through it again for other machines. Does anyone know of 
> a cheap(ie. free) program for windows which can take a network 
> postscript print and convert to a windows printer driver, I have found a 
> few commercial programs which are way out of my price league. Apparantly 
> nt server can do this but it is very slow and unreliable, can anyone 
> comment on this ?

Yes, you can install Ghostscript for windows and then make it look
like a PS printer to any Unix machine.

See the info on Redmon:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost/redmon/index.htm

quote:  

"A PostScript Windows printer redirected to a RedMon port can shared
on a network. When this printer is configured to use Ghostscript and a
non-PostScript printer, it appears as a PostScript printer to other
network clients."

Also have a look here:
http://pad.olsonnetwork.com/faqs/MakePDF_HOWTO_Images.html

(But ignore the part about setting it up with Acrobat Distiller.)

Cordially
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