Re: UNIX printing demystified

2020-10-24 Thread Mihai Popescu
I used CUPS every time since LPD is a confusing thing for me. I mean I was never able to make it print. My Brother network printer shows this at Protocol section: Web Based Management (Web Server) HTTP Server Settings SNMP Advanced Settings LPD Advanced Settings Raw Port IPP HTTP Server Setti

Re: UNIX printing demystified

2020-10-24 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2020-10-24, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Is there a way to interface LPD directly with GUI apps like Chromium, > mupdf, etc? I mean just to print from GUI menu Print. Those print menus _should_ offer the option to print to lpr. They traditionally did. If they don't now, then this is worth examini

Re: UNIX printing demystified

2020-10-24 Thread Mihai Popescu
Is there a way to interface LPD directly with GUI apps like Chromium, mupdf, etc? I mean just to print from GUI menu Print.

Re: UNIX printing demystified

2020-10-21 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 10:10:30PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > Every now and then people post a "question" about printing to this > mailng list which exposes their confusion. I am putting this email > together so that anybody capable of searching through the mailing list > can at least hav

UNIX printing demystified

2020-10-20 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Every now and then people post a "question" about printing to this mailng list which exposes their confusion. I am putting this email together so that anybody capable of searching through the mailing list can at least have terminology straight before asking for help. Information presented here is