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Windows to CUPS
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/sharing_with_windows.html#share_cups_config
The basic problem is that in the Unix model, applications create print files in whatever generic format they wish (e.g. PostScript), and the print system spools it as-is and changes it into whatever (binary print stream) the printer needs just before sending it to the printer.

On the other hand hand, in the Windows world, each application calls a print driver to create the binary print stream that the destination printer needs, and the print system blindly shuffles the bytes to the correct place.

So, a Unix print system given a application/octet-stream doesn't understand what format it is, and doesn't know how to translate it into what the printer needs.

You must configure CUPS to accept the pre-formatted output by uncommenting the following line from /etc/cups/mime.convs:

application/octet-stream   application/vnd.cups-raw   0   -

application/octet-stream

Also, http://networking.earthweb.com/netsecur/print.php/10951_2236011_2 it should be possible to directly print to a CUPS printer from Windows via a URL like

http://192.168.1.2:631/printers/hplaserjet 

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