Sat, 18 Dec 2004, by jimo@eskimo.com:
In preparation for upgrading from SuSE 7.3 to 9.2, I'd like to print out a bunch of config info on my shiny new Kyocera printer. I've got the PPD file from the LinuxPrinting.org site (I think there's also one on the CD that came with the printer) and poked around on the LP.org site a bit, but all the info seems to be CUPS specific and I've always just used lpr. If I can do something quick and dirty using lpr and save CUPS until after I move to 9.2, it'd save some steps maybe.
CUPS is easy to setup, in the time it took you to investigate this, you could have had it up and running.
For what I need immediately, ascii text will do, so I probably don't even need to worry about GhostScript (I'm running gs 6.51), and it's conceivable the 1020 knows ps itself (the LP.org FAQ gives a command for putting it into PostScript mode, KDPL2)
Just try 'echo "hello world" |/dev/lp0' If that works you can 'cat' files to the printer I don't know anything about lpd, except that it's a major pain to make it work the way I want it to. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: gurp@nedlinux.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + MSN: twe-msn@ferrets4me.xs4all.nl See headers for PGP/GPG info. +