Printing from Linux to Vista
We bought a new printer yesterday. HP2280 All in one colour printer, scanner, copier. It was a cheap deal from QMB at just shy of $50 (NZD). As this is our second printer, bought to replace the one we have that hasn't yet died, we decided to install it on my wife's Windows Vista PC. The install and functions all went perfectly as one would expect with a "Made for Vista" product. The tricky bit turned out how to connect it to Linux for remote printing. I thought I could use the extra printer at times so went to install it... First step was drivers. I ended up installing a mammoth driver pack and utility tool-set I downloaded from Sourceforge . ( link provided by HP website. ) Next I needed to enable TCP Printing services on the vista host. Did this in control panel / Add remove windows components. Next I used the standard linux printer dialogue to attach the printer using Cups with the Samba backend. That worked just fine too. I could even send a test print ...