This is for printing MP3 from Windows to a LPD network queue.
If you don’t know why you should do this … don’t ask.
Download and install a PostScript driver (for pass-through):
„Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer“ (e.g. v1.0.6)
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44&platform=Windows
Install windows component
„File- and Printservices for the Network“ » „Print services for Unix“
Set up LPR printer:
„Local Printer …“ » „New Port“ with port type: „LPR Port“
Now provide the LPD server name and the queue name.
(e.g. the LPD is on a server named „audio“, and the queue is named „lp“ => printer port „audio:lp“)
At this moment simply use Provider=“Standard“ with Printer=“Generic / Text Only“, even if this is NOT the final configuration.
(As printer name, I will now use „audiocentral“, representing the remote „audio:lp“ queue.)
Now open the printer properties (e.g. „audiocentral“) use the tab „extended“ (german „erweitert“) and set the driver to „AdobePSGenericPostScriptPrinter“.
Press „Apply“.
Then change the setting in the same tab to not use a spooler; this is not necessary with the remote queue.
Then press „Default values…“ (german „Standardwerte…“).
And in the new dialogue the „Extended…“ button.
Swing open the „PostScript options“ in the tree.
AND FINALLY: set the PostScript output option to „Archive format“ (german „Format archivieren“).
The original printer instance form the Adobe Installation can now be deleted. The required thing from Adobe was only the driver component, to use it with the LPR printer configuration.
At this point you have a printer that this will do a pass-through and without nonsense interpretation, pure binary delivery.
But now: how to print the MP3? If it would be a local printer one could simply copy the file with the /b option to LPTx. This works not with the LPR printer.
Yet there is a nice solustion…
Download and install „PrintFile“ program
http://www.lerup.com/printfile/
Set the PrintFile Printer to the LPR printer („audiocentral“).
Deactivate the „Show printer selection dialog“ option.
Done.
You can drag’n'drop the MP3s to the PrintFile icon, which will deliver them to the lpd queue.
