Cups installed, but printing through lpd possible?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Martin Schmiedel wrote:
> In "Configure - KDE Control Module" I can select the "Print System 
> tcurrently used". Does this mean i can print using lpd instead of cups?

In theory, yes.

In practice, no-one has touched or maintained that part of the KDEPrint
code in about 5 years. It is unknown if it still works.

> If so, will lpd read the conf in etc/lpdfilter?

In theory, yes.

In practice, ...

> This would easily solve the problem described in the thread "How set 
> tcpi &  lpi " Message number 13604, 13621, 13699,.
> I then would switch to lpd for this given printer, use the lpdfilter
> that works on my server under suse8.0 and lpd.

No.

Because very likely, your OS will not allow you to install the LPR/LPD
daemon software at the same time as CUPS. It conflicts.

Even if you can install it (a la Debians "alternatives" system), you'll
not be able to *use* them both at the same time for different print
queues.

> The conf -file contains the needed HP-Escapes to tell the printer
> how to print.
> 
> To easy to be true?

Yes.


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