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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbubble.gif"
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>WinPrinter Work-around</H3>
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<p><strong>From harmbehrens on Sat, 01 May 1999
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WinPrinter Work-around
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Hello,
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is there any work-around to get a gdi printer (Star Wintype 4000) to
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work with Linux :-?
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<br>Harm
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
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Save the file to some supported format (something that
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MS Windows can read), copy the file to a Windows system
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(to which your GDI printer is attached) and/or reboot
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your system into MS Windows, and use that to print.
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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--- Alternatively I suppose you could configure a
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Windows system to share its printer and use Samba
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(smbclient) to print to that.
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Those are WORKAROUNDS.
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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I presume that these are NOT what you wanted to hear.
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However, there is no way that I know of to support
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a Winprinter without running drivers that are native
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to MS Windows (and its GDI --- graphics device interface
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--- APIs).
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I think that the development of GDI printers was a
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devious and clever trick by Microsoft. Tie the
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customer AND the printer manufacturers inextricably to
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Microsoft's SOFTWARE and leave them both vulnerable to
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MS upgrades for the lives of their products. It's
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diabolically clever.
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1999, James T. Dennis
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<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 42 June 1999</H5>
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<H6 ALIGN="center">HTML transformation by
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<A HREF="mailto:star@starshine.org">Heather Stern</a> of
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