Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] IP-only netatalk [formerly:Network Server 700 and netatalk]
From: Edan Idzerda (edan@mtu.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 08 1998 - 23:58:14 EDT
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> Is there any way to get UNIX to communicate better with the printer? I am
> curious if anyone has written anything that isn't built around line
> printers.
Well, LPRng and its associated filters do a fairly nice job of talking with
HP printers, though there isn't really a facility for querying PPDs--but I have
heard some talk of it.
So, an lpq on the unix side will tell you "paper out" or "the printer's not
answering" or "busy" and simple things like that. Whether or not the Apple-side
lpr/lpq can get at this information depends on how they query LPRng's LPD.
Whatever happened to that Internet Printing Initiative Thingy, I wonder.
That's not it's real name, obviously, but wasn't there a working group of some
kind that was working up something like this?
oh well.
- edan
home page for LPRng: http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng.html
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