[dba-Tech] MS Surface RT

Thanks Hans, I'll look into it.
jb

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Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:12 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [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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