rdesktop/freerdp: color printer PS driver for duplex, quality setting

Frantisek Hanzlik franta at hanzlici.cz
Wed Mar 21 09:41:05 UTC 2012


I'm a little playing with printing to local CUPS printer from remote
RDP connection. IMO there should be two solutions:

1) use original windows driver and print to CUPS raw queue - it shall
take advantage of all printer features. But I'm not sure when this
method is supported by rdesktop/freerdp clients, it seems as no.

2) use postscript driver for printer model which have (near) all
features as real printer and print to CUPS queue with CUPS native
PPD for this printer. It seems supported well in both rdesktop and
freerdp, but they take as default driver MS Publisher Imagesetter -
which seems lack of setting duplex printing, printing quality and
maybe other options too.

What are best practices in this case? If 2), then which PS driver
know options as color printing, setting duplex, quality, margins,..?

Thanks, Franta Hanzlik


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