Network printers / PDF / netcat

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Bill Campbell propounded (on Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:20:26AM -0700):
| 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.

How does this differ from rlpr, which I've called from a SysV interface
script just as readily as I might call netcat?

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JP