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Title: apsfilter and network printers

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apsfilter and network printers

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 5.0

Request:

You want to print on a network printer that has its own network connection via lpr/lpd. Optionally you want to pass the printjobs through apsfilter before.

Procedure:

Starting with S.u.S.E. Linux 5.1, the following description can also be found in the handbook. Further information can be found in the Printing-HOWTO /usr/doc/howto/Printing-HOWTO.gz.

A network printer which has its own TCP/IP network interface appears to the BSD spooling system like a distant host with own printer queues (names : see printer manual; often LPT1 etc.). As such it can easily be accessed via a distant printer queue, e.g. with the name remote from the local machine.

However if you need to filter the print job, the procedure gets more complicated since the printer daemon lpd doesn't preprocess print jobs for distant printer queues. Also the specification of filters in the /etc/printcap will be ignored in that case. Therefore jobs for this printer queue remote must already contain data specific to the printer.

The solution is to configure a second queue with the appropriate filter, that doesn't send its output directly to a printer but as a new job into the queue remote. This possibility is available in the apsfilter version delivered with S.u.S.E. Linux . Here are the necessary steps :

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Keywords: PRINTER, PRINTING, APSFILTER, REMOTE, NETWORK

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Categories: Printer

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