LInux printing

There was a thread on this at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/86976

first off you'll need to make sure that your linux system can print to the HP printer itself -- all you need is a native data feed through to the printer (you're going to rely upon the printer driver in Windows to actually format the data -- and you'll tell linux to pass whatever the windows machine sends directly to the printer)

Next, you'll need to ensure that the printer is shared -- via SAMBA

The final resolution (also at that URL above), was:

(quoted from page)
"My friend Shyam got a fix for me. This solved the problem on my server:

Uncomment the following:
/etc/cups/mime.convs:
application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0
-

/etc/cups/mime.types:
application/octet-stream

then restart cups"

First, you are required to setup a samba server on your Linux machine.
http://samba.org/ for more information.

Once you have set it up, configure your printer.

Afterward, just share the printer through samba. Edit the smb.conf

Hope this helps

'printtool' is also an easy way to configure the printer/spooler on the Linux machine. Then it's just a matter of sharing it via SAMBA.

- Matt