Printer Driver for sending a job to Kinkos

[JD]

Kinkos has a printer driver for windows which
allows one to select to print to a Kinkos nearby
location.

I was wondering if there is a Linux/Unix "kinkos" driver
to add to Cups so that when one is on the road, one can
print to nearest Kinkos location.

I know I can email the file, or even the web link
to the kinkos email address. But that requires that
I know the email address of the kinkos location.

Thanks for any tips/clues.

[g]

On 06/28/14 19:46, JD wrote:
<>

>  ​I did indeed ask.
>  They had absolutely no clue what I was asking for.
>  So, they referred me to their own tech support.
>  Their tech support had no idea if they ever had
>  such a driver.
>
>  So much for tech support :) :) 
that should be: :( :(
;-)

ok. i will ask a friend who just retired from fedex to see
what he may enlighten with.

will post back with his rely.

-- 

peace out.

in a world with out fences, who needs gates.

tc.hago.

g
.

[g]

On 06/28/14 22:01, JD wrote:
<>

>  few months ago, I actually found a link to a windows driver hosted
> on
>  a fedex url. It did  install without issues - but it never worked,
>  and the Fedex tech support had no idea how to "make" it work. 
thru what windows program did it run? or was it it's own program?

>  The description claimed it worked. I hope to find that driver and
>  post it to a public upload site, and post the link to it. 
i was in contact with friend via facebook [his email address is on
system that is down] when i started having slow down and hangs while
on facebook, i had to close all facebook pages. i restarted firefox
with add-ons disabled to see if that was problem. turned out problem
is with my connection to facebook.

what he did mention is that as far as he was aware is that forms had
to be either a .pdf or a .doc file and he did not know if cups could
send such file.

to do so, it would take a special driver for cups and should be found
at cups site, if there is such.

i tried logging into cups.org site only to have password problems.

i suggest that you check cups.org to see if they have a driver.

if not, figure out a way to send form to kinkos, other than an email
attachment.

i just now opened http://www.fedex.com/us/office/ and tried to see
what procedure was, but got 'not available at this time' page. so
no luck there.

it does seem that there should be a way to upload file thru a web
browser. do not know.


again, much luck.

-- 

peace out.

in a world with out fences, who needs gates.

tc.hago.

g
.

[JD]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net&gt; wrote:

>  On 06/28/2014 08:46 PM, JD wrote:
>
>   On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 4:12 PM, g <geleem(a)bellsouth.net&gt; wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 06/27/14 14:08, JD wrote:
> >
> >> Kinkos has a printer driver for windows which
> >> allows one to select to print to a Kinkos nearby
> >> location.
> >>
> >> I was wondering if there is a Linux/Unix "kinkos" driver
> >> to add to Cups so that when one is on the road, one can
> >> print to nearest Kinkos location.
> >>
> >> I know I can email the file, or even the web link
> >> to the kinkos email address. But that requires that
> >> I know the email address of the kinkos location.
> >>
> >
> >  would a kinkos store not be a better place to ask?
> >
> > being that fedex uses linux, i would imagine what you
> > need is available.
> >
>
>  ​I did indeed ask.
>   They had absolutely no clue what I was asking for.
>   So, they referred me to their own tech support.
>   Their tech support had no idea if they ever had
>  such a driver.
>
>   So much for tech support :) :)
>  ​
>
>
>
>   This may be a silly question, but how do you know that there really is
>  such a printer driver? Do you have a copy of it installed? Where does it
>  print to?
>
>  
​A few months ago, I actually found a link to a windows driver
hosted on a fedex url.
It did  install without issues - but it never worked, and the
Fedex tech support had no idea how to "make" it work.
The description claimed it worked.
I hope to find that driver and post it to a public
upload site, and post the link to it.
​

[Doug]

On 06/28/2014 08:46 PM, JD wrote:
>  On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 4:12 PM, g <geleem(a)bellsouth.net 
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>
>
>      On 06/27/14 14:08, JD wrote:
>
>          Kinkos has a printer driver for windows which
>          allows one to select to print to a Kinkos nearby
>          location.
>
>          I was wondering if there is a Linux/Unix "kinkos" driver
>          to add to Cups so that when one is on the road, one can
>          print to nearest Kinkos location.
>
>          I know I can email the file, or even the web link
>          to the kinkos email address. But that requires that
>          I know the email address of the kinkos location.
>
>
>      would a kinkos store not be a better place to ask?
>
>      being that fedex uses linux, i would imagine what you
>      need is available.
>
>
>  ​I did indeed ask.
>  They had absolutely no clue what I was asking for.
>  So, they referred me to their own tech support.
>  Their tech support had no idea if they ever had
>  such a driver.
>
>  So much for tech support :) :)
>  ​
>
>  
This may be a silly question, but how do you know that there really is 
such a printer driver? Do you have a copy of it installed? Where does it 
print to?

--doug

[JD]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us&gt; wrote:

>  On 06/28/2014 05:46 PM, JD wrote:
>
> >
> > So much for tech support :) :)
> >
>
>  I've done tech support.  Most of them only know how to follow scripts, and
>  if you ask them something they don't have a script for, very few of them
>  know how to find out.  The odds are very good, alas, that nobody there
>  cares enough to know about Linux. 

​True. Also, many of them are either too tired, too bored, or
as you say, simply do not care​

​one way or the other.
Possibly, the issue is not central to their operations, so they
are not going to spend any cycles looking into it.​

[Joe Zeff]

On 06/28/2014 05:46 PM, JD wrote:
>  So much for tech support :) :) 
I've done tech support.  Most of them only know how to follow scripts, 
and if you ask them something they don't have a script for, very few of 
them know how to find out.  The odds are very good, alas, that nobody 
there cares enough to know about Linux.

[JD]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 4:12 PM, g <geleem(a)bellsouth.net&gt; wrote:

>  On 06/27/14 14:08, JD wrote:
>
> > Kinkos has a printer driver for windows which
> > allows one to select to print to a Kinkos nearby
> > location.
> >
> > I was wondering if there is a Linux/Unix "kinkos" driver
> > to add to Cups so that when one is on the road, one can
> > print to nearest Kinkos location.
> >
> > I know I can email the file, or even the web link
> > to the kinkos email address. But that requires that
> > I know the email address of the kinkos location.
> >
>
>  would a kinkos store not be a better place to ask?
>
>  being that fedex uses linux, i would imagine what you
>  need is available.
>  
​I did indeed ask.
They had absolutely no clue what I was asking for.
So, they referred me to their own tech support.
Their tech support had no idea if they ever had
such a driver.

So much for tech support :) :)
​

[g]

On 06/27/14 14:08, JD wrote:
>  Kinkos has a printer driver for windows which
>  allows one to select to print to a Kinkos nearby
>  location.
>
>  I was wondering if there is a Linux/Unix "kinkos" driver
>  to add to Cups so that when one is on the road, one can
>  print to nearest Kinkos location.
>
>  I know I can email the file, or even the web link
>  to the kinkos email address. But that requires that
>  I know the email address of the kinkos location. 
would a kinkos store not be a better place to ask?

being that fedex uses linux, i would imagine what you
need is available.


-- 

peace out.

in a world with out fences, who needs gates.

tc.hago.

g
.