Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-15 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 04:59:36PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Folks: > > Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with > printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does > anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, et

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-15 Thread Christian Groessler
On 6/14/22 23:11, Klaus Singvogel wrote: Additional you needed printer specific drivers, if you don't have a PostScript capable printer. You could use ghostscript as filter if you didn't have a PS capable printer. (Which was normal because they were expensive). regards, chris

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 23:25:32 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Paul M. Foster wrote: > > > Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with > > > printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does > > > anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages we

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread IL Ka
Old printer connected via LPT port was accessed using /dev/lpt Because several processes shouldn't print at the same time, there was a spooler called lpd and the client tool called lpr. https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_system_administration/linux_printer_HOWTO/setup_002.html On Tue,

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 6/14/2022 4:59 PM, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Folks: Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.? If you want to do this

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with > > printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does > > anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.? Greg Wooledge wrote: > lprng was the most commo

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread Klaus Singvogel
pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with > printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does > anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.? LPRng was the most common printing spooler before

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 04:59:36PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with > printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does > anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.? lprng w

Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread paulf
Folks: Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages were needed, etc.? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: ht