Here is a comp.os.linux.misc post about printing from GNU/Linux. Unfortunately, there wasn't much "discussion" as the original poster offered no follow up. That is the way it goes on usenet, I guess.
Update: 2010-10-17
The above discussion continued on a new thread, but remained unclosed/ambiguous as far as a real solution. Here is a link to the new thread. For some reason, my response was not included/captured by Google groups. Here it is copied directly from Pan:
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:42:56 -0500, Geico Caveman wrote:
> Well, this is really not a server, but this set of groups are
> collectively perhaps the best place to ask this question.
>
> I have a windows only printer that is attached to a windows machine
> (Windows XP Professional SP 3).
>
> I have followed this guide to redirect the port and set up a dummy
> postscript printer to allow unix hosts to print:
>
> http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/macosx/winmacprinter/
>
>
Caveat: I don't have a Dell MFP 1125
I was not aware of "redirected" ports under Windows (as explained in the
above link). Thanks for that info. That gets around the "kludge" of a two
step process that I explained here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/msg/188d3a25f727dc19
I think that you should still try what I recommended in the above post.
That way you could test that certain parts of the problem are setup and
working correctly. Then as it is debugged, you can phase in the more
elegent solution incrementally. The link you found definitely results in
a more elegant final solution, but there are more items that must be
setup correctly all at once. BTW, regarding the winmacprinter setup
steps, I would be tempted to just the smb protocol when using cups
because it speaks smb. That way lpr is eliminated at both ends.
--
Douglas Mayne
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