[OpenIndiana-discuss] Printing from the command line

[Stephan Althaus]

On 2/2/26 01:14, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> How?  I find no trace of lp, lpd, lpr etc.  I have a Brother MFC7360N on a wired ethernet connection.
> I've selected a generic postscript printer with the Print Manager but Print Test pages are all blank. Print  Self-Test doesn't do anything.
> I just want to send a small Postcript file example from the command line using a2ps(1)
> Reg
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Good Morning!

i found that there is a daemon delivered with cups:
$ pkg search -r cups-lpd
INDEX      ACTION VALUE                        PACKAGE
basename   file   usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd 
pkg:/print/cups at 2.4.14-2025.0.0.0

but there are no lp* commands or devices - on my system... :-/


Maybe you could do that with netcat copying the files directly to the 
socket (maybe 9100) ?
Some printers have a ftp and/or smb feature you can copy fils to the 
printer.


Regards,

Stephan