Re: How to I print to a TCP/IP Port.

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

At 03:23 PM 1/12/2005 -0500, linux wrote:

>I recently migrated from WinXP to Linux (SuSE 9.2 Pro). I need some help
>setting up my new linux box to print.  My old WinXP box printed to a network
>printer.  If I open my printer properties dialog in WinXP I would see the
>printer listed with an IP address.   How do I set up my SuSE linux to print to
>this same printer.  I guess what I am asking is, how to I print to a TCP/IP
>Port.  Thanks,


The answer depends a bit on what the printer expects in the way of input. 
Usually (in my experience), networked printers include embedded "lp" 
servers (listening on port 515/tcp). If you have one like that, you can 
access it by running an lp daemon on your Linux system, and configuring it 
to access a remote printer.

I don't know SuSE specifically, so I don't know which of several lpd 
implementations it runs. The package I use here is lprng. Using it, you 
configure access to the remote printer via an entry in /etc/printcap, for 
example one like this:

         caxton|caxton|raw:\
                 :lp=:\
                 :rm=caxton:\
                 :rp=raw:\
                 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/caxton-raw:\
                 :sh:sf

The "rm=" line supplies the printer's address (in the example, "caxton" is 
a hostname that the Linux host can resolve).




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