John’s Tech Blog for Lawyers

Once you have CUPS installed properly, you can easily print from both Unix and Windows clients. On Windows (at least Windows XP), open up the Printers list from the Control Panel and click on Add New Printer. Windows will ask whether it is a local printer or a networked printer. Choose networked printer. From the next screen, do NOT choose browse the network. Windows will only browse the local windows network and will not show the CUPS server unless it is also running SAMBA.

Instead, go to the box to type in the URL. then put http://yourcupsserver:631/printers/YourPrinter. Of course you will need to substitute the actual ip address or host name for the CUPS server, and you will need to know the printer as it is called on the CUPs server. Additionally, unlike Unix clients, you will need to put the port information behind the server name, e.g. :631.

If you put in the correct server name, then you simply need to choose the printer, and print driver from the following Windows menus.

Happy printing.