A Cups PDF color printer for your Windows clients

We suppose you already have a properly configured and running CUPS system.

Step 1

Yum install cups-pdf or Grab the RPM or SRPM from http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/

yum install cups-pdf

or

rpm -ivh cups-pdf-***.rpm

service cups restart

Restart the cups service

You should see the new PDF printer "Cups-PDF" under lynx http://yourserver:631

Step 2

Now let’s share the PDF printer for your Windows clients :

1) Add the network printer in window XP :
http://yourserver:631/printers/Cups-PDF

2) The system may warn you of potential viruses (if XP), then tell you no drivers have been installed for that printers. Click yes to install the drivers. To get a color-able PDF printer, pick up "HP DeskJet 1200/C PS" which is quite mainstream (drivers included in Windows 2000/XP by default). You won’t need to share the drivers on the samba server if you go with this one.

3) Try test print, you can find the "***.pdf" in :
linux path : "/home/user/Desktop"
Samba user's home directory : "\\yourserver\user\Desktop"
Edit /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf to your needs.