[Wylug-discuss] Win7 x64 postscript printer -> samba print Apple Laserwriter not available

[Roger Leigh]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:04:46AM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> I've got a system where my WinXP (they still work well) workstations have a 
> virtual printer installed on them. 
> 
> This virtual printer uses Apple Colour Laserwriter Postscript drivers to 
> generate PS files which are then printed to a linux server where Samba passes 
> the file to one of my scripts which then parses the file, extracts data, 
> coverts the PS to PDF and then inserts the details into a database.
> 
> My problem is that on the new Win7 x86 PC's the Apple drivers are not 
> available.  Can anyone point me to compatible drivers, or what I can do 
> instead.

Adobe's generic postscript driver would probably be a better bet
that the Apple drivers:
  http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=pdrv&platform=win
but these probably won't work on Windows 7.

This suggestion also looks reasonable:
  http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-hardware/how-do-i-get-a-postscript-printer-driver/e5372352-bcdf-400f-b9a6-1f3314d88f25


Regards,
Roger

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