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Offline ralphrmartin

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Re: Printer
« Reply #50 on: April 04, 2017, 11:48:40 am »
If you get a postscript printer connected by Ethernet, it wont need drivers, and wont go obsolete...
 

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Re: Printer
« Reply #51 on: April 04, 2017, 12:25:05 pm »
Same question again ;) When I run "lpr my-picture.jpg", how is that picture converted into PostScript for the PostScript printer? Maybe by some sort of printer driver?
 

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Re: Printer
« Reply #52 on: April 04, 2017, 03:37:08 pm »
You clicked next when 'Search for a printer in Active Directory' was checked in the add printer dialog, unless your PC is a domain member on an AD network you did it wrong.

The USB port being taped off is a standard thing on a lot ofprinters where the manufacturer wants you to install their software/driver before you plug in the printer.

It is preferable to use the Ethernet port instead of USB anyway, it's way easier to share the printer around a network that way.

No, I opened Word, clicked File->Print. Then there is the current default printer listed on a button. Click that button to get a drop-down list of available printers, and at the bottom of the list is the Add Printer selection, without any checkmarks or etc.... Click that and I get instant active directory unavailable message. I think that is a MS bug as there are many people having that issue with various solutions.

This is entirely a Windows problem.

An iPad saw the printer and printed NO PROBLEM! No Driver. No Nothing. Why can an Apple app see the printer and print but not a MS app?

MS Stinks...and the chipped toner cartridge stinks too.

But the printer printed something, so Yeah! (I was doing my taxes and that happens on an offline PC - which may end up using the parallel port)

Oh, I recall at work when we got network printers. We just opened Explorer, navigated to the printer on the network, and double clicked the printer and it seemed to become instantly available in all MS apps.
 

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Re: Printer
« Reply #53 on: April 04, 2017, 04:04:45 pm »
Printers that have Ethernet ports should support LPD (port 515). This does not require client drivers, the client simply runs lpr and submits a job to the printer.

How does the OS know about the printer? How can the applications know about it too? Does the printer convert a pdf or Excel sheet into its native printing format to be able to print the document?

Real printers, and real operating systems support PostScript. When you print from an application it gets converted to PostScript and sent to the printer. The printer knows what to do.
 

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Re: Printer
« Reply #54 on: April 04, 2017, 04:31:35 pm »
Oh, I recall at work when we got network printers. We just opened Explorer, navigated to the printer on the network, and double clicked the printer and it seemed to become instantly available in all MS apps.

I think you have a print server on the network somewhere which 'publishes' the printers to the network, then you can navigate to them via explorer, the print server has the drivers and when you double click on the printer it makes them available to your PC which installs them
 

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Re: Printer
« Reply #55 on: April 04, 2017, 06:05:13 pm »
Oh, I recall at work when we got network printers. We just opened Explorer, navigated to the printer on the network, and double clicked the printer and it seemed to become instantly available in all MS apps.

I think you have a print server on the network somewhere which 'publishes' the printers to the network, then you can navigate to them via explorer, the print server has the drivers and when you double click on the printer it makes them available to your PC which installs them

 Yes, this is how Windows Server operates. Install print drivers on the print server, and you can install multiple versions to support different client versions, and the driver gets installed when a user connects to the printer.

 

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Re: Printer
« Reply #56 on: April 04, 2017, 07:26:01 pm »
Provided the printer manufacturer has supplied them all you could have drivers that supported XP32 bit, XP64 bit, Windows 7 32 bit, Windows 7 64 bit and such all on the server, and it would identify the client and install them automatically ( aside from needing a reboot of course with a lot of clients) the first time.

Fun when this does not work though, can really mess things up
 

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Re: Printer
« Reply #57 on: April 05, 2017, 06:26:29 am »
Hello mate, i have an Canon i-sensy LBP3010B, works nice, i print like 500 sheets without refeel, never gave me any headaches.
« Last Edit: June 09, 2017, 06:15:42 am by Debect »
 

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Re: Printer
« Reply #58 on: April 05, 2017, 08:43:13 am »
Same question again ;) When I run "lpr my-picture.jpg", how is that picture converted into PostScript for the PostScript printer? Maybe by some sort of printer driver?
Yes, but a generic postscript driver, not some manufacturer specific driver for some weird and maybe obsolete protocol.
 


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