Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:07:01 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: LPRng question and printing in general Message-ID: <475B0775.9010008@math.arizona.edu>
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I would like to ask people who use LPRng spooling system on FreeBSD to clarify something for me. I have been playing with all available spooling systems on FreeBSD (LPD, LPRng, CUPS , PDQ) as well as HPLIP in order to document their behavior and write simple howtos for each of the systems. However I kept getting into the trouble with LPRng. Namely, I could not get past the following message Lp@localhost -cannot open connection - No such file or directory Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol Is that the famous conflict with the native LPD supporting RFC1179 printing. How do people resolve this conflict in practice? I also noticed that PDQ project is completely abandoned by its creator. Also LPRng was abandoned by its creator in 2005 and then picked by somebody else. I wander what is the state of ifhp filter which is used by default by LPRng. As it is a hardware based project and there are so many printers that were manufactured in the mean time I wander if the system is still usable in real life. Is FreeBSD printing essentially reduced to LPD+apsfilter for small to medium print networks and CUPS for very complex printing networks or LPRng is alive and well. I tried to get into LPRng mailing lists but they seems are not active any more. Best, Predrag
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