On 02/17/2016 12:49, Chris Bennett wrote:
After reading up on printers in use, I discovered that there is
significant use of line printers due to their very low cost of
consumables, production of a very long lasting output, unlike
laser/thermal/inkjet printers and high reliability.
Is anyone using these in a high volume output setting (not like a
restaurant or other low volume)?
If not using, but would like to, what is broken, missing or otherwise
wrong with our lpd/lpr system?
I do see that lpc, lpq, lprm are dinosaurs and have to be made extinct
and replaced with something more functional with more information output
and better capabilities.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
CUPS installs AVAHI. That is a security risk - it attempts
to change DNS lookups, etc.
Any package which pulls in something as disastrous as avahi
isn't welcome here.
lpr et al are primitive. They work fine for me and have
worked fine at all the places I worked except one
which was Linux-centric.
I just created and will submit to ports a version
of ghostscript which doesn't pull in cups - it
turns out the configuration has a switch for that case.
Geoff Steckel
