On: Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat

[Evidlo]

Choose Jetdirect/Appsocket in the printer add menu and it will do the same thing.

There is nothing magic about netcat. You are just dumping Postscript/PDF data on a TCP port the printer is listening on.

[r3trohack3r → Evidlo]

Oh fascinating. If I use the system dialogue, I can choose the application to print to. There is an `lpr` option, and I can specify the application it invokes in a "Command Line" field.

I can put `nc [printer_ip] 9100` there and it will just print. I just printed your comment this way.

That's cool! Thank you for teaching me something!

[gsich → Evidlo]

Back in the day I opened telnet on that port. Typed some stuff and was fascinated that it got print.