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From: Timfy on 25 Jan 2008 03:11 Hi group, Apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place, but this seemed the most likely group to help with my query. I own, and am reasonably happy with an Olivetti Any_Way wireless printer. I have two Linux (Suse 10.3/KDE) desktops and one, identically setup Dell laptop. My primary PC is also dual boot, with Windows XP installed. No drivers for Linux were supplied for the Olivetti and so at the moment, if I need to print, I need to boot into windows. My question is this... Is there anything available for printers that operates in much the same way as NDIS does for wireless cards, enabling me to use windows drivers? Failing that, is there any other means of using my currently Windows only printer through Linux. I have approached Olivetti, but the omens are not good. Best regards from a relative newbie, Timfy
From: Shadow_7 on 25 Jan 2008 07:39
> No drivers for Linux were supplied for the Olivetti and so at the > moment, if I need to print, I need to boot into windows. Just one question. Does the manufacturer even provide drivers for all the flavors of windows? Win95, Memphis, Win98, WinME, WinNT, WinXP, Win2000, Longhorn, Vista (I probably missed a few) I would imagine that since it's wireless it should support some sort of standard networking protocol (IPP)? Or at least PostScript. I recently gave away a printer because it only had drivers for WindowsME (Canon MPC 5000). IMO, more printers work in almost any linux distro than do in any version of windows. Heck even my high end soundcard doesn't work in Vista. But is utterly awesome in linux. For win-printers you're probably out of luck. At least for the next decade or more. Heck, I can't even find win drivers(95/98/ME) for my win modems anymore. Even though they work fine under linux. And used to have drivers that seemed to work for windows, when they were bought new. And even had updated drivers for several years off the net. http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting ( aka linuxprinting.org ) http://cups.org/ http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/ http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Olivetti-Any_Way (heh. THIS IS A PAPERWEIGHT.) http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Olivetti-JP350S Works... I guess I should also ask what model do you have? http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Olivetti-JP450 Partially works... http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Olivetti-JP470 Works... http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Olivetti-PG_306 Works... http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Olivetti-d-Copia_400_KX Works... HTH |