Re: w32 issues

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > Jason, you mentioned a work around setting up the printer to be 
> > networked. Is not the chance that it is a GDI printer rather high and 
> > that it will not work because of this?
>
> There is no such thing as a GDI printer. GDI is a Windows API for 
> drawing graphics. Printers take text or binary commands over a wire. 
> Setting up the printer through the network solves the problem that USB 
> ports do not have real character devices assigned to them by default.

Yes, but it is also the language used for printing on those printers, 
see for example:

  http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:GDI_Printers

As they write there such printers does not always recognize other 
printer language than GDI. They also mention the problem that the 
printer might be in a bad state.

Using the "network fix" does not necessarily seem to help, or?