Re: [Thinstation-general] Firefox and printing
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From: Mike E. <thi...@gm...> - 2007-12-17 20:44:15
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On Dec 17, 2007 9:15 PM, Craig Falconer <cfa...@to...> wrote: > Hi all - I have a bunch of thinstations going in for a short term event > (a scout jamboree) > > They've got a bunch of random crap printers, ancient parallel Deskjet > 670 and brand new cheap canon ip1800 USB printers. > > The thinstation build has rdesktop and firefox2 packages, as well as > lp_server and lprng. I can telnet to port 9100 on the client and magic > happens correctly. However, firefox only shows one printer, > "postscript" and if I print a web page, it dumps postscript to lp0. Not > right. > > My thinstation.conf file comes from a tftp server and says in part: > > ... > PRINTER_0_NAME=OfficeCopier > PRINTER_0_DEVICE=10.162.0.10%9100 > PRINTER_0_TYPE=N > > PRINTER_1_NAME=HealthCopier > PRINTER_1_DEVICE=10.162.0.11%9100 > PRINTER_1_TYPE=N > ...(more networked devices)... > PRINTER_6_NAME="usb" > PRINTER_6_DEVICE=/dev/usb/lp0 > PRINTER_6_TYPE=U > > PRINTER_7_NAME="parallel" > PRINTER_7_DEVICE=/dev/printers/0 > PRINTER_7_TYPE=P > ... > > How can I make firefox print something useful? Even if it just saw the > networked copiers it would be much better. To the best of my understanding (and I'm willing to be corrected), a plain TS terminal will only be able to print plain ASCII text. If this text is PS formatted *and* the printer a PS printer, PS formated text/graphics will be printed. At least I have had no or little problem printing on a PS printer from Firefox using lprng. For non-PS printers your only chance is to let the Windows Server handle the printer driver and use TS as a simple relay station for preformated print jobs. Mike > > > -- > Craig Falconer <cfa...@to...> > 3T, for Scouting New Zealand > http://www.scouting.org.nz/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services > for just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Thinstation-general mailing list > Thi...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/thinstation-general > -- Thinstation oldtimer http://thinstation.sourceforge.net - a light, full featured linux based thin client OS |