On 6/14/2022 4:59 PM, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote:
Folks: Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.?
If you want to do this for practical reasons and not for nostalgia's sake then you can make a RAW spool/queue printer in CUPS. And then use the command line cups command as lp/lpr. As in the olden days you'll have to make sure what you're sending to the printer is in some format it understands. Unless you have a really weird printer or printer setup cthough you're better off having cups to the conversion to printer format for you. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26329186/creating-a-raw-printer-queue-in-cups-host-and-adding-them-through-cups-client https://www.cups.org/doc/options.html Bijan