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How to Print/Format LPR/LPD Unix-type Jobs to Windows Queues

Asked by e_sandrs in Unix Operating Systems, Linux Printing, Windows 2003 Server

Tags: "*nix" / Microsoft, *nix OSes and Windows Server, 2.6 Kernel and Windows 2003 or 2008, Mixed Network Printing Options

Two parts to this question, first the easy one:

Can we send print jobs from *nix-type systems to a Windows 2003 print queue?  What do we need to do to set this up? (vague details are fine - I don't need step by steps)

The harder one:

Assuming we can print to Windows, how can we format the content sent to the Windows server for proper alignment and scaling?

The details:

We currently generate print jobs on an HP-UX system and send them to various Linux boxes running LPRng.  Because this output was originally designed for wide, line printer, paper we need to format many of the reports in LPR to custom layouts for printing on standard 8.5"x11" paper (landscape and landscape  with compressed text - for example).

Due to staffing changes and departmental mergers we are considering moving all printing to one or more Windows 2003 (or '08) servers for administration by non-*nix-folk.

We may be moving off of the HP-UX server onto a yet to be determined replacement - but the new box will be one of the following: HP-UX again, Sun Solaris, or Red Hat Enterprise -- so I don't think that really matters.

Many of the printers will need to accept both the *nix content and typical Windows Desktop printing.

So, can we use Windows as our print server for both *nix server and Windows Desktop client print jobs - with formatting controls on the output?

Thanks for any info you can provide - if this gets more detailed that I think we need to be right now I'll throw more points on the fire...
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