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From: "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com>
Subject: Re: System Printer
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 02:16:52 -0400
References: <bd97p0$67d1@imsp212.netvigator.com> <20030624135548.GC1299@jpradley.jpr.com> <bddqqv$78u14@imsp212.netvigator.com> 

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:37:18 +0800, tman wrote:

> I have tried to configure the printer using mkdev lp and setup as
> follow: printer model: I try hp, epson, HPLaserJet, HPDeskJet 500
> device: /dev/lp
> 
> Then I print a file temp1 as # lp temp1
> 
> There is no reponse for the printer.
> 
> However if I connect a epson dot matrix printer or HP laser printer.
> Then the file can be printed out.
> 
> Thanks.
> Tman
> 
> "Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
> news:20030624135548.GC1299@jpradley.jpr.com...
>> tman typed (on Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:13:22PM +0800): | Hi, | |
>> Anybody over there know that SCO 5.0.6 can support USB system printer?
>> |
>> | I have a Samsung SCX-1150F Copier/Fax/Scanner/Printer Four-in-One
> printer
>> | with USB and parallel interface.
>> |
>> | Can I setup this printer to connect unix console in USB connection?
>>
>> No.
>>
>> | Also, I have configured the parallel port (mkdev parallel) and
>> printer | (mkdev lp) in unix and connected in parrallel. However I
>> still cannot
> print
>> | out to it.
>>
>> And what did you exactly try?
>>
>> --
>> JP

Before even *bothering* to plug a strange new printer into a unix box, or
print to it by any means from a unix box, before even buying the thing for
that matter, you look up it's specs on line and verify that it understands
either PCL or PS.

By starting with plain guess of www.samsung.com, and plugging in the model
number into their search field, I arrived at the following page:
http://www.samsung.com/Products/MultiFunctionProducts/support/Download/manual/index.htm

page 186 of scx1150f_english.pdf states that the printing emulation is
GDI, in other words it is a brainless, windows-only printer.

This all took under _2 minutes_ without previously having any familiarity
with this printer or samsung printers in general or the samsung web site.

Translation: Since it was so quick and easy to find this info, that means
you are here asking others to help you when you didn't even do the
slightest lick of research into the problem yourself. That is pretty
annoying. I'd have understood if you had at least gotten to the point
where you found the docs and saw the part about the emulation, and simply
didn't know the significance of GDI vs PCL or PostScript, but it doesn't
_appear_ that you even tried to look into the matter at all, just plugged
it in, it didn't work, and took no further action than to post here "why
don't it work?" and sit back and wait for the problem to be solved for
you.

now to pre-emptively answer two of your possible next questions:

No it will not work any better by hooking it to a windows box and printing
to it from unix via facetwin/samba/visionfs, although, if you do that, and
also install PrintWizard on the windows box, then you can print from unix
to it. That is about the only way you will be able to print anything from
unix to that printer.

There is another arrangement that _looks_ like printing from unix to it:
You could hook the printer to the unix box, share it via
facetwin/samba/visionfs and install the drivers on the pc's so the pc's
print to it, but that is not "printing to it from unix", in that case unix
is just accepting bytes from windows and stuffing them at the printer.
unix cannot directly do anything useful with it like print from unix apps.

Basically, somebody just got themselves a really nifty, personal desktop
printer but the office still needs a printer for unix.

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