[SLUG] print server for Windows

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jan 24 2006 - 21:13:12 EST

So I was thinking about implementing a print server for a couple XP boxes on
the LAN. Before the upgrade, I used W2K in VMware. I already had VMware to
run other stuff, so that was easy. Now, I've done a massive upgrade (2.4 to
2.6, ~RH 8.5 to Ubuntu 5.10) and I'm pretty sure I'd have to re-buy VMware
(student price, but still count on $150). It was prettty flaky before.
Guaranteed to work, easy to set up.

Then I figured, hey, I don't need to run VMware, I have a *real* W* machine
now; a physical print server would be trivially easy to set up, and up all
the time (VMware wasn't). What would that run, $80-$100 or so?

Then, this thought came to me, maybe CUPS + Samba can do it, for
free-as-in-beer. (Way back when, I used some pretend-you're-a-Mac program
to print to a a Deskjet 1200C [PostScript inkjet], which exported itself on
the LAN as a Laserwriter -- is that related?) Any chance this would work?
It's a Canon i560. The last time I checked (OK, several years ago), it
wasn't (easily?) handled by any Linux tools I could find, but I don't know
about now. 

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