On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 12:42 AM luchiz via 9fans <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello list, > > I'm trying to set up printing on 9front. I have a Canon printer > located at 192.168.0.34, and I don't know how to set up lp to print to > that address. There is little documentation found on the official > Plan 9 website. Can you show me how to set up printing for LPD and > port 9100? I want to try out both to see which one works best. > > Thank you. -luchiz >
The most important detail is to make sure your printer speaks postscript. I have an HP Color LaserJet CP1518ni that I print to on 9front. I happen to use 9front for networking so its also my DNS and DHCP server. NDB entry: sys=HPcolor ether=001e0b0543b3 ip=192.168.1.63 dom=HPcolor.bla.org I then have the following line in /sys/lib/lp/devices (yes the trailing dash is intentional) HPcolor officeroom HPcolor tcp!HPcolor!9100 - post2+600dpi+color generic lpdspool+fonts lpd generic hp - I forget how I arrived at the above line though my suggestion is to read up on lp(1) and lp(8). I can print a PDF like so (no space between the '-d' and printer name for lp): pdf2ps doc.pdf | lp -dHPcolor - taw ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T018e03ecbf2b5fbb-M96f29956feaa0001f4068264 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
