[dba-Tech] MS Surface RT

Does the Surface RT support CUPS? If so, then you could install a CUPS server somewhere and the RT shouldn't need specific printer drivers.

- Hans


On 2013-07-24, at 9:32 PM, "John R Bartow" <jbartow at winhaven.net> wrote:

> Just got done working with a client that bought a Surface RT a few weeks
> ago. He bought it for her. She's rather technologically phobic. He wanted
> for her to be able to be able to use it in their network at the office and
> be able to take it with her easily and have her files. So far the only issue
> has been printing. They have a nice USB Canon laser printer but it does not
> have drivers for the RT. They have an old Dell XP machine sitting there not
> doing much so I connected the printer to it and use it as a print server.
> All the other laptops print through it now except the RT. For that she has
> to use XPS to print to a shared file on the print server, open it on the
> print server and print. It isn't the ideal setup but it works. But I thought
> I'd ask here if anyone else has a better idea.
> 
> jb
> 
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