[cups.general] Printing to plp-System

[Helge Blischke]

Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
> Ok, Good to know. Otherwise, can I print to a printe rattach to a Server
> by the old LPD-System (In SUSE called lprng-old)?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> Helge Blischke schrieb:
> 
>>Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Hallo,
>>>
>>>wie have a System which is growing throu the time, but the
>>>Printing-System is still the old PLP-System.
>>>
>>>Now we are planing to switch to newer Linux-VErsions so we also have to
>>>update the Printing-System to Cups.
>>>But this is going step by step so we have to print from the Cups-System
>>>to some old Machines with PLP installed.
>>>
>>>Is Cups able to print to a Printer which is attached by the plp-System?
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>
>>>Daniel Spannbauer
>>>
>>>    
>>
>>If printing to plp printers using the lpd backend does not work,
>>let me know, I have an experimental PLP backend (a Perl script)
>>that works with a quite old PLP installation from about d dozen years
>>ago but may easily be modified to your needs.
>>
>>Helge
>>
>>
>>  
> 
> 

Yes, that brobably will work, but, as the LPD protocol is hardly
treated as a standard, there is a possibility that this will not
work. Use the lpd backend.

Helge

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