At date and time Sun, 21 Jun 2015 15:49:47 +0000, Ron Swiernik wrote: | Allmost all my print queues are without filters. NetBSD makes is | soooo much easier with the lp=port@hostname. | | Sample printcap entry: | lp:\ | :sh:\ | :lp=9100@default:\ | :sd=/var/spool/output/default:\ | :lf=/var/log/lpd-errors:\ | :mx#0: | | For basic stuff the printer should be able to recongize the | input stream. I have done this to Ricoh station simular to that | class. It will only use the defaults that the printer is set to. | If you want to do anything else it is probably easier to use | some filtering thing like CUPS.
This is very useful, and it clears up the concept of filters for me, to an extent. Thanks. -- Gerard Lally
