English_Mohican <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> at: Dec 11, 2008 2:31 PM (MST) wrote about: Re: Dos to USB > >Clarification please: > >1. Stating that Wine will not talk to a non-Cups printer presumably means that it will talk to a Cups printer. So if Linux can print to a USB printer that is a CUPS printer, presumably so can Wine. Yes? > Correct. Wine does not care where the printer is located. If you can print to it using CUPS, then Wine should be able to do so likewise. >2. If this Dos programme can be persuaded to run under Wine (I accept that may be asking too much - Wine primarily emulates Windows rather than DOS) does it matter whether the printer is serial/usb/networked/whatever, surely Wine simply redirects it to "the" printer and Linux looks after the rest. > Correct. Wine will direct all output to CUPS. However, you must go into CUPS and configure the printer and I recommend that it be the primary or default printer. Your DOS program may not be able to switch printers. Windows programs, depending on when they were made, should. James McKenzie
