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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] printing over usb
Date: Mon,  5 Jul 2010 21:11:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5a88f3397e5c8ee26ea6a8cac9cc3de@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTintgKS9VnjQlfBQ01r4xsntzZFUd4S49wtg3_ef@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon Jul  5 18:25:26 EDT 2010, james@cs.ioc.ee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I 'solved' the problem by attaching the printer to my apple airport
> express. Now I can print from plan9 using this neat trick I found
> whilst digging in 9fans:
>
> term% cat test.ps | telnet tcp!express.lan!9100
> connected to tcp!express.lan!9100 on /net/tcp/2
>

you can also print through lp(1) in this way.  i believe
the JetDirect example in /sys/lib/lp/devices is the right
template.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-06  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-03 18:31 James Chapman
2010-07-03 21:08 ` franciscojose ballesteros
2010-07-03 21:31   ` James Chapman
2010-07-05 22:23     ` James Chapman
2010-07-06  1:11       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-07-06  6:16         ` Akshat Kumar
2010-07-06  8:02       ` Francisco J Ballesteros

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