FreeBSD port for redirecting printer

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, February 27, 2013 a las 02:10:18PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar escribió:

> > Re/ CUPS and lpd(8), I only want to mention that in real world live I'm
> > the technical lead of a software company and we have around 150 big
> > libraries (of Universities etc.) which run our solutions on Linux or
> > Solaris SPARC; they all use a precompiled CUPS and configure all their
> > printers in the network with CUPS (browser admin); I will not imagine
> > what would happen for us on service hotline, if they would all use
> > something different and asking "why the hell the print is not coming
> > out";
> >
> it depends of someones imagination :)
> 
> I would even be more scared in using point&click software on that scale.

This shows that you have never used CUPS or just no idea about what you
are talking; in addition to the web based admin interface, you have all
files for edit with vim, like printers.conf or cups.conf, and ofc all
log files upto debug level if you need;

> 
> > $ lpr -Pfoo myfile.txt
> >
> > and all is done on the fly, assuming the printer "foo" understands
> > Postscript.
> same without cups with just doing right filters. And knowing what you did.

please specify the exact filter command pipe to print an UTF-8 encoded
text file to a Postscript printer; or just say, I've never done and do
not know; thanks

	matthias

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