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--- articles:cupsprinting [2009/02/11 12:28] – timallen
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 Using Samba, the CUPS Windows Postscript driver allows for "easy" downloading of a single postscript driver to Windows machines from the Samba CUPS-enabled server, irrespective of the actual printer.
-Obtain the tarball from the CUPS website, extract and build. ''libcupsys2-dev'' is needed for the make install, smbclient is needed by cupsaddsmb, so :
+Obtain the tarball from the CUPS website, extract and build. ''libcupsys2-dev'' is needed for the make install, smbclient is needed by cupsaddsmb, so:
   aptitude install libcupsys2-dev smbclient
   cd /tmp
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+===== Printing Text Files =====
+Print options can be specified on the ''lpr'' command line. e.g.
+  lpr -pLaserjet-6P -o cpi=11.5 -o lpi=6 -o page-top=33 [file]
+Alternatively, printer options can be set by the ''lpoptions'' command:
+  lpoptions -pLaserjet-6P -o cpi=11.5 -o lpi=6 -o page-top=33
+==== Printer Instances ====
+Multiple options set can be set up using printer "instances", where each instance of a single printer can have a different set of options.
+To set a printer instance, use:
+  lpoptions -pLaserjet-6P/instance1 -o cpi=11.5 -o lpi=6 -o page-top=33
+To delete an instance:
+  lpoptions -xLaserjet-6P/instance1
+Printer instances set by root are global.
+Note that printer instances are not presented on the CUPS web interface.
+=== Printing Text Files From Windows Command Line ===
+There are a number of obstacles to printing with specific option sets through Samba with CUPS:
+  - Samba appears to not support printer instances via the CUPS API. They simply do not appear as listed printers. Furthermore, attempts to specifically list a printer instance also do not work.
+  - Any printer options set with ''lpoptions'' (see above) are ignored.
+  - It may be possible to define a special printer, printing = sysv, and define a specific ''lp'' print command, but this would need a difference printer defined for each option set. Also, all the other print commands then also need defining in this section of ''smb.conf''.
+One solution is to give up on Samba and simply pipe the file to ''lpr'' on the print server using Cygwin ''ssh'' (or any other Windows ''ssh'' client). e.g.
+  type file | ssh cupsserver lpr -pLaserjet-6P -o cpi=11.5 -o lpi=6 -o page-top=33