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I have a customer that has linux as a server. The rest of the computers in the office have either windows xp or 98. They want to set-up printing and scanning. I would like to be able to set it up on the server so that all the computers could access it from there. I was wondering how i could do this. I was wondering if the drivers for linux were different from those for windows xp and 98.
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I use Linux a LOT.. I have it installed on around a dozen or so machines here.
I have an AP3800c (and a number of other laserjets) on my lan and any pc can print directly to it.
But, if I so desire, say to spool a huge job or a lot of huge jobs I can print to the CUPS server running on one of my machines, CUPS will spool print jobs and route them to any printer I want. I can access the CUPS interface and have full and total control over all printers, can stop, start, restart, kill print jobs, print reports, reprint lost jobs from the past, you name it. There is no way to go wrong using Linux as a print server, it excels at that.
I do have an XP box and a 2k box and they can print to the CUPS server, it works just fine, handles all levels of postscript and PCL. I've found nothing that chokes it up..

http://www.cups.org/

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