Linux Brother network printer from command line

franz.pfoertsch.brose franz.pfoertsch at brose.com
Fri Apr 23 10:42:55 PDT 2010


> Hi,
>
> Ia have a Brother 5250Dn with network card, And I ahve configured this printer on a Linux System (Redhat 5), and I can print from gedit, openoffice, ...
>
> this works but I need to print to a device like #cat file.txt > /dev/lp but the problema is this is a network printer and tehere isn't any device to do this, device-URI that appears is socket://ip:9100
>
> How Can I do this? I have an application that need to receive the print file to a device ...
>
> Thanks

do a easy lp -d <printername> file.txt

that's it!

regards
Franz





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