[ale] Sharing non-network-capable printer

Michael Hirsch mdhirsch at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 19:27:54 EDT 2005


On 9/6/05, Randy C. Ramsdell <rramsdell at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:32 -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >
> > Not sure about the MAC side of this but I use a Linux box running
> > Cups/samba to share out my USP HP printer to my linux boxes and my
> > wife's windows laptop. (She has to use windows for school)...
> >
> 
> We found the printing from this scenario absolutely too slow when
> printing from windows systems to a Linux box /samba. I never found out
> why this happened. This is why we switched to using a Linksys print
> server. Have you noticed slow printing from a windows system?


Maybe Windows is slow at converting the files to postscript?

Michael
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