Network printers / PDF / netcat

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, May 25, 2012, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Does anyone here on the list have one of those network printers that 
>supports PDF files directly?  Are you able to print a PDF file by simply 
>using netcat?

I don't know about PDF printing offhand, but on a somewhat
related note, I put together a python script that does
essentially the same thing as netcat, but with print servers that
only support the LPD protocols.

The problem I had to solve was using a couple of fairly expensive
dot matrix printers with parallel interfaces from SCO OpenServer
running under VMware on a Linux host with no parallel port.  I
wasn't able to find any new parallel print servers that support
port 9100 direct printing, and SCO's support for LPD is basically
BSD printing which doesn't use the Sysv style interface scripts.

Bill
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