On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 14:22, Ben Munat wrote: > I have a little four port router I use to share my internet connection > with my boxes and it has a print server on it. What's the easiest app to > use to send my print jobs to it?
Personally, I use CUPS. With that being the case, you can quite easily create a printer to which it will try to talk "IPP" [Internet Printer Protocol, whatever that is - I think it's similar to HP's JetDirect], by using a URL-like ipp://. You can also add socket://, and I think lpd://... so you've got a bunch of things you could try. I travel a lot, and I've had good luck with that from time to time around the world with networked printers [although networked printers can be hard to find in ye ole internet cafe], so that may work for your switch/print server gizmo. > Can I just start lpd on boot and have the ip > address of the router in some config file somewhere? /etc/printcap, which is a sewer. Do your self a favour. Use CUPS. FWIW, it'll also really pay off if using openoffice-ximian. AfC Sydney -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia: +61 2 9977 6866 North America: +1 646 472 5054 http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
