Linux Brother network printer from command line
franz.pfoertsch.brose
franz.pfoertsch at brose.com
Fri Apr 23 10:42:55 PDT 2010
> Hi,
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> 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, ...
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> 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
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> 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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