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Line Printer Daemon (Protocol)

"The Line Printer Daemon protocol is a network protocol for submitting print jobs to a remote printer." (Wikipedia/Line Printer Daemon protocol)

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CUPS printing protocols: what's the difference between RAW/JetDirect - IPP - IPP14 - LPD?

I am debugging some printing issues on a small LAN, and although I'm fairly sure the issues I'm facing are not related to cups itself, I have been tinkering with the printing protocols that both CUPS and my printers (Konica Minolta Bizhub C224E and…
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Resume last print job from command line

To resume a job from command line I can call lpq which gives me the job number for example 211 and then lp -i 211 -H resume. However is there a way to resume the last job without figuring out its job id first to resume just all holded jobs with…
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CUPS job-name document-name

I have CUPS 1.6.3.22 on Centos7 and when I print from AIX6.1 machine the job gets no name-title so it shows "Untitled" on the Jobs web page in the column "Name". And I want no banner page. I know that with the lpr command and a banner, the job title…
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How can I print to a remote LPD print server, without locally installing CUPS server

I have a linux (Fedora 22) machine and two thermal printers with a Digitus print server attached to each one. All are on the same LAN. Digitus print servers are each running LPD daemon and each one is configured to offer just one queue: …
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How do I set up a PostScript print queue to share a PCL laser printer and add PS fonts?

I would like to take a $100 PCL-compatible laser printer and hook it to my home network either through Wi-Fi or by connecting it directly to a Linux server by USB. Instead of using the manufacturer-provided drivers, though, I want to be able to…
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Enable remote printing options with cups-lpd

I am trying to print from SCO OpenServer remotely to a CUPS-LPD daemon running on a Red Hat Linux machine but it is dropping any print options from the print request. For example: lp -d remote-print-queue -o landscape print-file The options…
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Redirect lpd lp to a file?

We have an ancient Business Basic application which prints reports to a simple line printer, and we would like to capture that output to a file (to then scrape the data from it). This runs on Red Hat 8 (circa 2002). The Basic code OPENs then PRINTs…
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Duplex printing without cups

Hhow do I print duplex with Berkely lpr? (Other lpd suggestions are welcome) It has no options on simplex/duplex modes, but I guess, that they were somehow able to print duplex back then.
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Ignoring "print banner page" flag in inbound LPD jobs (CUPS-LPD)

I have a USB inkjet printer connected to a server running CentOS 5.7 (64). I installed and enabled cups-lpd so that another Unix server could send print jobs to that printer. The other Unix server assumes you want a banner page printed unless you…
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setup lpd printer to print to printer and file

In reference to: Redirect lpd lp to a file? What about the scenario where you want to print and store the output in a file at the same time? I cannot seem to make this functionality work. I can get it to send to the printer, send to a text file, but…
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LPR print, can it be directly to printer?

I have a USB printer, connected to a network print server (TL-PS310U). I want to print from Debian/Ubuntu to this printer. The queue is named 2409ee3c, but when I try to use lpr, it says that I need to add /version=1.1: user@user:~$ lpr -H…
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Know the name of a driver to use on the CUPS gui

I have this Epson L355 printer and according to www.openprinting.org I need to use the epson-201207w driver; however, on the CUPS config panel at http://localhost:631, the list of drivers only displays names like Epson E 300, Epson EM 900C, etc,…
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Reasonable literature on network printing (protocols)

I need some recommendations on reasonable and up-to-date literature about network printing, the corresponding protocols (ipp, lpdp, ...), printjob authentication and accounting in heterogenous networks.
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How do I disable banners for remote jobs with cups-lpd under systemd?

I'm familiar with how to disable the banners on a system running xinetd (server_args = -o job-sheets=none in /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd). I've located the [email protected] file, which would appear to serve the same purpose, but the parameter names…
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