Re: Printing to a network printer by IP address

[Gerard Lally <lists+netbsd.users%netmail.ie@localhost>]

At date and time Sun, 21 Jun 2015 15:49:47 +0000, Ron Swiernik wrote:

  | Allmost all my print queues are without filters. NetBSD makes is
  | soooo much easier with the lp=port@hostname.
  | 
  | Sample printcap entry:
  | lp:\
  |         :sh:\
  |         :lp=9100@default:\
  |         :sd=/var/spool/output/default:\
  |         :lf=/var/log/lpd-errors:\
  |         :mx#0:
  | 
  | For basic stuff the printer should be able to recongize the
  | input stream. I have done this to Ricoh station simular to that
  | class. It will only use the defaults that the printer is set to.
  | If you want to do anything else it is probably easier to use
  | some filtering thing like CUPS.

This is very useful, and it clears up the concept of filters for me,
to an extent. Thanks.

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Gerard Lally