Digital BW, The Print

john eckenrode wrote:

> Anyhoo Windoze users can use
>QTR with a Linux setup and a bunch of people on this
>list help each other out regularly with the Linux
>configuration so it is very possible. QTR is a labor
>of love on this list so jump in the water is warm.
>  
>

Ok, I may be about to give QTR a try...

Of course, the machine I formerly used to play with Linux on is now a 
Windoze print server...

1)    So, if I run QTR on another machine  can I use Samba to output to 
a 1270 on a Windows XP Print Server?

2)   Has anyone tried running QTR on an emulated Redhat 9.0 installation? 

I'm thinking of trying the following:

Running VM Ware with a RedHat 9.0 guest operating system on either the 
Print Server hosting the 1270 and 1280 or running it on another client 
machine on the network.

Basically what I want to see is if I can print:

1)    Using QTR 2  on a virtual RedHat session from a network client to 
Windows XP printers via SAMBA.

2)   Using QTR 2 on a virtual RedHat session  hosted on the Windows XP 
printserver to the 1270 and/or 1280 on that server.

Personally, I think  option #1 would be most attractive if it works..  
Then I could invoke QTR 2 from within a virtual Linux session on a 
machine other than my  server or main production machine.  I'd prefer no 
to run it on the printserver, if possible, as only one OS at-a-time can 
control a USB port on the VMWare host system..

If neither option works, I'll probably cobble together a super cheap 
Linux 9.0 print server with two parallel ports and use the parallel 
ports to print to the 1270 and 1280- via QTR 2 on Linux, while leaving 
the USB ports hooked up to the Windows XP printserver.

Any thoughts from those of you using QTR 2 on Linux?


 
Keith Krebs

"Just some guy," and caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSON_Printers/
 
"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"

 

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