On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:49:30AM -0600, 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?
The only thing wrong with lpd is nobody tedu'ed it yet. No really, it is outdated beyond rescue. If you want to write a new print job queueing system, sure, have fun. Maybe you can come up with a 'cups' that doesn't suck? > > 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
