using network printers, what non-cups things exist?

[Florian Diesch]

Am 2019-11-11 11:24, schrieb Mike Marchywka:
> I spent most of yesterday trying to get an HP OfficeJet to print from 
> 16.04
> despite
> having had good luck previously using it and an older DeskJet as a 
> scanner
> with hp-scan. It turned out that
> one problem was the cartridges- the color test page printed something
> and then apparently the black and white text failed to print.
> However, there were a lot of "failed filter" messages and using
> lpr with raw output at least got a piece of paper to feed. I only
> have a few peripherals at a time and print rarely. I don't
> really need any of this stuff. Is there any way to just print
> a file as a one liner?

Have a look at LPRng and ifhp