using network printers, what non-cups things exist?

[Mike Marchywka]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:41:04AM +0100, Florian Diesch wrote:
> 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

Thanks, but what else is really needed besides a format convert and
socket output program? Both should be easy to find. An ampersand is
all the queue I need :) It is not like the network printer is actually
a device that needs a kernel module to support right?


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