Recommendation for printing system

[Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>]

Dear group. I am a little puzzled by the options offered in the HOWTO
for a print system for my laptop. I have a server running lpd in my lan,
but that seems to be a bit outdated, if I understand well. The documents
mention PDQ, LPRng, PPR, CUPS and others.
My requirements seem simple, I have a laptop running Potato and Helix
Gnome. I need to print to the lpd system on my server and the occasional
stand alone printer when traveling. This means that I would like to be
able to change printer definitions quite easily.

I would like to know the 'Debian way' of doing this, if such thing
exists.

Thanks a lot.

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  Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>