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Title: apsfilter and network printers

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apsfilter and network printers

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 6.0

Request:

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

Procedure:

Notes on this procedure have been included in the manual since the SuSE Linux 5.1 release. Additional 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 remote host with its own print queues (names: see printer manual; often LPT1 etc.). As such, from a local machine one can easily access a remote print queue, e.g. with the name remote.

If you need to filter the print job, the procedure is complicated by the fact that the printer daemon lpd (from package "lprold") does not preprocess print jobs for remote print queues. In this case the filters specified in /etc/printcap will also be ignored. Therefore jobs being sent to this print queue remote must already contain data specific to the printer.

The solution is to configure a second queue with the appropriate filter, that instead of sending its output directly to a printer, sends it to the queue remote. It is possible to configure the apsfilter version which comes with SuSE Linux to do this. Here are the necessary steps:

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Keywords: PRINTER, PRINTING, APSFILTER, REMOTE, NETWORK

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Categories: Printer , Configuration

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