From: "Ed Durrant" <virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 08:10:38 +1000
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Subject: Re: [Virtualized eCS] Printer support
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Doug Bissett wrote:
> This may be common knowledge, but I never heard about it before:
>
> My brother got a Canon Pixma MP620 printer, which doesn't work all that
> well with eCS (it almost works, using the CUPS printer driver). It is a
> printer that can optionally be network attached using WiFi. He has
> WinXP installed in a Virtual PC 5.1 system, under eCS 2.0 RC6a, which
> has network support. It was easy to connect the printer using the
> network attachment, and it works great. Even the scanner works. The USB
> part also works, but the only part that I got working was the photo
> selection from a SD card. Other parts may work too, but I didn't have
> the time to try that out.
>
> Hope this helps somebody...
>   
I've been trying to get a sort of Wintendo print server in virtualbox 
working for sometime - it would of course only work over network 
connectivity - I take it you are "riding" on the eCS Wifi support to get 
to the wifi enabled printer. I have never found a way to have the data 
"captured" by a Win32 program and auto sent to the printer without 
hitting the printer driver problem however - I need something to convert 
incoming standard (i.e. PS or PCL) data into native printer language 
within the Wintendo Virtual session. Haven't found anything that works 
so far. If I could do this I could load a stripped down (and locked 
down) Windoze image in Virtualbox (or VPC/2) and have it running to take 
care of printing to any Windoze compatible networked printer.

By the way I guess you know the latest versions of CUPS/2 work via USB 
as well as parallel and network?

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

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