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Serial Printer I wonder if anyone can help with an issue we are having trying to setup a printer on a new Unix server box via Serial Printing. Details as follows:
Printing If you are coming from the Windows world, you are probably bewildered by the multiple kinds of printing schemes in Unix. There's lpd, System V, direct to port, smb, CUPS, LPRng and weird stuff that uses ftp, and probably more. Worse, there is no such thing as a printer driver in the same sense as you have in Windows.


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Title Date Comments
Print file listings from the command line   2009 00  2009/09/17 16:20 TonyLawrence

How do I set up a network printer or print server?   2009 09  2009/09/08 21:52 TonyLawrence

Switching to Windows   2009 04  2009/07/22 11:43 TonyLawrence

Switching to a Mac - not yet   2009 03  2009/03/24 22:28 TonyLawrence

Spoiled Brat Printers   2009 03  2009/05/04 21:55 AndrewSmallshaw

The Last Time I Climbed a Ladder   2008 11  2008/11/03 16:46 TonyLawrence

Printers Down   2008 09  2008/09/19 14:15 TonyLawrence

Creating LPD Filters   2008 02 

Printing from Solaris to Windows   2008 02  2008/02/01 21:20 TonyLawrence

Dual printing   2007 12 

Controlling Firefox Headers and Footers   2007 12  2007/12/13 15:30 TonyLawrence

Wiggle that Mouse   2007 11 

 
 
 
 
HP's CloudPrint   2007 08  2007/08/23 13:45 BigDumbDinosaur

Wireless print servers   2007 06  2007/06/07 12:44 MikeHostetler

No more Parallel/Serial?   2006 12  2007/02/16 19:57 TonyB

Plastering your printer   2006 11  2006/11/02 18:52 Tony

Another old SCO box   2006 10  2006/10/04 20:15 bruceg

Serial Printer   2006 07  2006/07/28 03:37 anonymous

GDI Printers   2006 04 

Race conditions   2006 04 

SCO upgrade and CUPS   2006 03 

Add a Netgear PS110 printserver to Mac OS X Tiger   2006 03  2008/10/19 17:32 Ed

ESP Print Pro   2006 01 

Dude, you should have bought the HP   2005 08  2005/09/25 15:22 BigDumbDinosaur

Jim Mohr's SCO Companion   2005 07 

repair lp   2005 07  2005/07/22 14:38 BigDumbDinosaur

Printing from Unix to Windows Printers   2005 06 

PCL6   2005 05 

IPP: Tech Words the Day   2005 03  2005/03/31 13:46 drag

Lock file permissions (lpd)   2005 03  2005/03/24 11:30 TonyLawrence

Print to FAX with custom tags   2005 02 

Transferring mail to a new mail server   2005 01 

Simplified OSR5 Printing   2005 01 

How ps works and why   2004 07 

Parallel printer cable length   2004 07 

hp network printer snmp -->Re Quick LP question   1997-2004 

lpd slow -->Re Problem with lpd going 'out to lunch'when JetDirect printer is not ready.   1997-2004 

lpr printer local interface script virtual printer -->ReRemote Print Server Question   1997-2004 

printing to D-Link DP-300U   1997-2004 

serial printer hangs on last page of job   1997-2004 

Intel Printserver Ports -->Re Print servers + ipprinting + scoadmin = brain haemorrage   1997-2004 

FAQ - How can I make a printer that will print to a file?   2004 06  2008/07/10 20:50 anonymous

Using the spooler to print to email   2003 12 

More using the spooler to print to email: email attachments   2003 12 

'arpwatch' for security and administration   2003 08 

Printing to a remote printer with a dynamic address   2003 06  2008/07/15 05:29 AnupKatariya

CUPS print to file - the hard way!   2003 03  2009/10/31 11:12 TonyLawrence

Printing   2003 02 

Converting Print Files to HTML Invoices   2002 11 

What is netcat and how do I use it?   2002 09  2009/04/19 18:05 TonyLawrence

 
 
 
 
Using Netcat for a simple lpr client   2002 09 

Setting up Netcat Printers   2002 01 

RS232 Wiring Diagrams   2001 12  2005/10/22 02:17 anonymous

Kevin Smith's pcloverlay   2001 11  2008/04/11 09:35 wg

Kevin Smith's Netcat   2001 11 

Real World Printer script   2001 08 

Netgear PrintServer PS110 and CUPS   2001 06  2007/11/19 21:44 anonymous

Netgear PrintServer PS110   2001 02 

Script to transfer printers from old system   2000 11 

Digiboard transparent print used wrong codes   2000 11 

HP 4050N printer wouldn't configure with bootp   2000 11 

Only root could print   2000 11 

The Chattering Printer   2000 11 

Network Printer Port Numbers   2000 09 

Visionfs Printing to LaserJet- J.P. Radley   1999 12 

Visionfs Printing   1999 03 

Printer Problems/Solutions   1999 01  2009/03/15 13:55 TonyLawrence

Intel Netport Print Server   1999 01  2005/04/14 04:12 anonymous

Pass-Through Printing   1998 12 

Configuring Network Printers   1998 

Serial Printers   1998 

How can I send change defaults permanently?   1997-2003 

Why does my HP printer start each new page further down?   1997-2003  2009/09/08 20:24 TonyLawrence

How do I print man pages from the command line?   1997-2003  2009/09/15 21:38 anonymous

How do I use a printer that's attached to an NT server?   1997-2003 

 
 
 
 
How do I use a printer that's shared on a Windows network?   1997-2003 

How do I install a HP Network Printer or Print Server?   1997-2003  2008/02/21 12:06 TonyLawrence

Some print jobs from my application fail mysteriously.   1997-2003 

How can I add or remove printers from the command line?   1997-2003 

Mixing Synchronics and Realworld or other mixed marriages   1997-2003 

My printer faults and prints same document over and over   1997-2003 

Can I use Windows printers?   1997-2003 

My printer doesn't work at all!   1997-2003 

How do I stop staircase output on the printer?   1997-2003 

How can different users have different default printers?   1997-2003 

What is a virtual printer?   1997-2003 

How can I get the file from the print spooler before it prints?   1997-2003 

How do I stop a print job and restart it from the beginning?   1997-2003 

How do I make a printer send a form feed at the end of the job?   1997-2003 

How do I stop extra form feeds that spit out blank pages?   1997-2003 

How can I make a device that will print to a network printer or send email?   1997-2003 

How can I print from Netscape without a Postscript printer?   1997-2003 

What are the escape sequences to select the trays on my HP printer?   1997-2003  2008/06/25 14:45 BigDumbDInosaur

Large print jobs fail on remote printers   1997-2003 

Why do I lose the last few lines of my print job?   1997-2003 

Why does printed output garble or stop after several pages?   1997-2003 

Print jobs fail, and I get mail complaining tcgetattr failed: No such device   1997-2003 

How do I stop banners from printing?   1997-2003 

Which Interface script do I use?   1997-2003 

What are printer interface scripts?   1997-2003 

 
 
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