win95/98/ME and printers. An ethics issue comparable to DRM servers or not?

[Leo Mauler]

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

> From: Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org>
> Subject: Re: win95/98/ME and printers. An ethics issue comparable to DRM servers or not?
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 3:43 PM
> On Thursday 31 July 2008, David Nicol wrote:
> > configured as networked printer driver
> 
> Windows 98 (and newer AFAIK) requires 
> printer-specific drivers even to print to 
> a network printer. Good luck with that idea.

Not entirely true.  If you select a Generic Postscript printer (or even a specific one) you can set up the Linux Samba server to accept Postscript printing from network computers.  Windows 98 comes with several Postscript printer drivers standard, and Linux can accept a Postscript printer output and send it on to the attached printer.

Even if that doesn't work, you can also print to File using a Postscript printer selection from the standard Windows 98 printer drivers, and then copy over the files to the server for printing.