Re: w32 issues

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > Jason Rumney wrote:
> > > 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
> That page doesn't support your statement at all:
>
> GDI is an API developed by Microsoft. The real problem is not the API 
> itself, but rather that GDI printers are exclusively accessible via a 
> proprietary protocol. Therefore, GDI printers should actually be called 
> "printers exclusively accessible via a proprietary protocol".


I tried the network solution. I first tried sharing the printer as 
HPLaserJ from the printer setup dialog in XP and then did

   (setq ps-printer-name "//localhost/HPLaserJ")
   (setq ps-printer-name "//localhost/HPLaserJ/")

None of these worked. Then I tried to figure out how to share the USB 
port. I can't find out how. Anyway I tried the above commands using 
USB0001 instead of HPLaserJ. No success.

Do you know how to setup the USB port for this?