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antalves
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wine x printers

Post by antalves »

Sorry if go to the same place again, but it is not clear for me if installing a printer suitable for windows is really easy in wine. I'm talking about a X1250 lexmark, that does not work under ubuntu.
If yes to my question, will it be accessed through open office, or word?
thanks for your patience
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wine x printers

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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:23 PM, antalves <[email protected]> wrote:
Sorry if go to the same place again, but it is not clear for me if installing a printer suitable for windows is really easy in wine. I'm talking about a X1250 lexmark, that does not work under ubuntu.
If yes to my question, will it be accessed through open office, or word?
thanks for your patience
No, Wine passes printer functions on to cups. If it doesn't work in
cups, it won't work in Wine.

Theoretically, this could change in the future, since print drivers
are in user space, it's possible for Wine to support them. Currently,
however, it doesn't.

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