Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:29:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, perryh@pluto.rain.com Subject: Re: How to set up a network-attached printer Message-ID: <20071014152136.L27592@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20071014085536.B35972@wonkity.com> References: <20071014085536.B35972@wonkity.com>
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Warren Block wrote: [snip] > For extra points, add another printcap entry for lp: that will print > plain text. I did something essentially identical to what Warren outlined, and it's worked fine for many years now, since long before I'd ever heard of CUPS. Here's the printcap entry: # HP color laser lp|snow|snowball|lj|ps|HP ColorLaserJet 4550N:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ :mx#0:\ :lp=:rm=snowball:rp="auto": By using various names separated by pipe symbols, they are all equivalent. Since one of them is lp, you can just send text to the printer and it works, e.g. $ lpr textfile I think that "lp" being the first entry makes it lpr's default; not positive about that. > /usr/ports/print/enscript* is nice for that, or lots of people use > /usr/ports/print/apsfilter so they can send about anything to the > printer and let it do the conversion. The printer should already know how to print text. Just send it via lpr; no additional software needed. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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