On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Bryan <bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been hampered with this for a few years now, and at most times, > it was easier to copy the file to a Windows box and print. But I'm > tired of having to do this, and have begun researching how to print to > a printer on the network. I recently bought a Brother 9840CDW, which > supports lpd and postscript. It also allows for FTP of files to queue > among other things. It's probably more printer (scanner, fax, copier) > than I need, but I'm tired of HP printers and the toner issues they > have. It is a really nice printer in Windows, and the scanner is most > excellent and fast. And according to the LInux foundation site > (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting) > it works perfectly. Of course, I have to take this with a grain of > salt, because of Linux's willingness to add proprietary drivers, > firmware, etc.
While I think it's possible to print using lpd, and people have done it, I found it to be about 10x easier to install cups and use that. You go to localhost:631, type in the printer's name, upload a ppd file downloaded from linuxprinting, and done. You can make lpd and postscript work if you know how they work, but figuring things out if you don't can take a long time.
