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Re: darwin-userlevel digest, Vol 2 #95 - 1 msg

Hello!

CUPS is directly printing over the net, locally and worldwide. This means that it's the printer that actually handles the queue of jobs to become printed (very often implemented in the printers' network cards), the printer is its own "print server". It has to have some software running that accepts connections over the net on a special port address according to some special protocol. Therefore a printer connected via serial, parallel, or USB won't work in CUPS fashion -- even if it has the CUPS server software running.

Trying to use lpr and /etc/printcap means that you determine the serial port, its speed and other qualities of serial protocol (handshake, number of bits ...) and describe these things in /etc/printcap. Using Ghostscript as output filter to convert (almost) everything to the bit patterns your printer accepts should make it. How? Probably according to a printing how-to for Linux ...

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Greetings

Pete
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