Win7 Starter + PDF print to Ubuntu Printer

[nathan forbes]

On Apr 23, 2011 6:39 PM, "NoOp" <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> First off, I know very little about Win7 & this request may be more
> Windows related than Ubuntu/linux related, but I could use some help.
>
> I have a Canon MP750 attached to my primary Ubuntu machine (32bit 10.10)
> and it's used as the primary print server. Nearly all network devices
> attach & print properly w/o issue: WinXP, Win7 Home Premium, Win7
> Starter, Ubuntu. The issue is with my wife's netbook HP-Mini w/Win7
> Starter. She can print all standard documents to the printer, images,
> borderless images, anything, with the exception of PDF's.
>
> On that netbook Printing from OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Web Browsers,
> Notepad, et al, work without any issues at all. The printers are set up
> as standard network printers. However, when she attempts to print any
> PDF documents the print jobs seem to just fall into dev/null. It doesn't
> matter if she uses Adobe Reader 9, or any other PDF program (we've tried
> cutepdf etc). They all silently fail.
>
> On my laptop with Win7 Home Premium that I use for testing, and for
> WinXP I use IPP:631 for the printers... Win7 Starter doesn't have IPP.
> So on the laptop with Win7 Home Premium I configure the printer exactly
> the same as on the Win7 Starter netbook - standard discover printer,
> select the discovered printer, print. Works w/PDF's & all other docs.
>
> So, I'm a bit at a loss here. I've googled my brains out & found a few
> 'references', but nothing that seems to work. One suggests:
> <
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/233bb347-43ad-4cf5-82a7-f7d503fe56ae
>
> enabling cups-lpd on the linux box... I've cups-installed, but can't
> seem to sort out if the Win7(S) is using that - or how to use it on the
> netbook.
>
> Any help/suggestions appreciated... I'm getting tired of my wife having
> to forward PDF's to me to print for her.
>
>
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They pretty much force you to upgrade your Windows Starter (or ditch it
entirely ;P) with the netbooks. It's probably just some silly restriction
similar to not being able to change your desktop wallpaper tbh.
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