Re: Printing under Wine - Mission Impossible?

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For the record I have this exact same problem and have
had it for a few months now. Printing used to work
before I went to RedHat 8.0. The wine I use is from
CVS.

Kevin



--- Patrick Tighe <ptighe@detroit.faurecia.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>      I've gotten CUPS support working quite easily
> with the latest Suse
> RPM, just an FYI.  I however am having a different
> problem.  I can't
> actually print.  The print job spools, but it isn't
> what I'm expecting.
> I've got 3 printers, an hp5, without PS support (not
> surprised this fails),
> an HP 4500N, which locks up upon receiving the print
> job, and an HP 8150GN,
> which does nothing.  Does anyone have any experience
> with this setup?  All
> three printers work fine for other printing
> applications, i.e. OpenOffice,
> or printing text files.  Thanks for any responses
> and help.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Patrick Tighe
> 
> 
> 
> Dan Fer wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been trying to print under apps running with
> wine for a while.
> >
> > In wine docs it says wine automatically detect
> CUPS printer. Well, I have
> > CUPS installed, everything prints great, except
> apps running under wine,
> > which say that no printers are installed.
> >
> > CUPS version installed. Debian woody version -
> 1.1.14.3
> > Wine version installed. Prepackaged Deb 20021013.
> >
> > Can anyone point me and explain how can I truly
> print right now under
> Wine
> > (using cups or not, wine docs are not very
> trustfull. (I would thank a
> lot
> > if the help would be detailed).
> 
> 
> Currently, Wine has to be compiled with support for
> whatever printing
> system you have. Hopefully someday that will change.
> In the meantime,
> that means that if the repackaged Deb 20021013 was
> not compiled with
> CUPS support, then the CUPS printing likely will not
> work.
> 
> So I guess, you could try to find out whether that
> package has CUPS
> support, or try to find another package that has it.
> Or just get source
> and compile (be sure to uninstall the version you
> have first). Yes that
> is a little more difficult to figure out the first
> time, but it really
> is not as hard as it first appears (in my opinion).
> And once you have
> done it once, it is very easy anytime thereafter.
> 
> 
> 
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