Re: Printing the old way

[IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com>]

Old printer connected via LPT port was accessed using /dev/lpt 

Because several processes shouldn't print at the same time, there was a spooler called lpd and the client tool called lpr.

https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_system_administration/linux_printer_HOWTO/setup_002.html

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 11:00 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.?

Paul

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