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How I found this useful (from the script's author)
Authored by: pianoroy on Nov 04, '04 01:43:06PM

The reason I wrote this was because I have a network with my own computer (connected to a printer) and a wireless PC laptop. I have SAMBA running on my mac, but I haven't been able to get the printer settings right so the PC laptop can print through SAMBA.

So I made the Folder Action as a workaround, so the PC user can just drop a file into "MacComputer > Shared Items > PrintFolder" and it'll automatically print.

Of course, it only works with the CUPS-enabled file types (postscript, raw postcript, PDF, text, rtf, images, and a few others). So if the PC laptop user wants to print, say, a Word file, they have to print it to file (PDF or PostScript) and then drop it in the PrintFolder.



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