On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 19:57 -0400, Jerry Russell wrote: > I'm giving up on trying to get my Brother MFC3820CN printer to work thru > Samba. The print que sends the file but the Samba machine doesn't print > it. The 3820 is NOT in the Linux list so I tried about every Brother > driver with no avail. I guess I'll buy a printer for the Linux Machine. > Now my question what is the best one to use. I want a color printer, > perferably an InkJet type ? > Jerry, if you can print from your linux system that is running the samba server then you need to go into /etc/cups and edit the mime.types and mime.convs files. In the mime.types file find the line # application/octet-stream under Raw Printer Support and uncomment it. Then in the mime.convs file find the line # application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - and uncomment it as well. Hope this will help you. John
