lp vs lpr. What to use in case of CUPS and what historical difference?
My Debian distro provide the lp and lpr commands for printing from CUPS.
I am a noob to printing in UNIX but have other tech skills.
I tried to find a difference in man lp and man lpr. It seems that lp only have more options...
The gv utility uses lp. I found older threads that explain that lpr is for network printing, while lp is a wrapper around lpr...
I just enjoyed reading:
- http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html
linux printing cups lpr
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My Debian distro provide the lp and lpr commands for printing from CUPS.
I am a noob to printing in UNIX but have other tech skills.
I tried to find a difference in man lp and man lpr. It seems that lp only have more options...
The gv utility uses lp. I found older threads that explain that lpr is for network printing, while lp is a wrapper around lpr...
I just enjoyed reading:
- http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html
linux printing cups lpr
edited Jan 20 at 18:44
Superdooperhero
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asked Feb 4 '13 at 17:01
gavenkoagavenkoa
92241831
add a comment |
My Debian distro provide the lp and lpr commands for printing from CUPS.
I am a noob to printing in UNIX but have other tech skills.
I tried to find a difference in man lp and man lpr. It seems that lp only have more options...
The gv utility uses lp. I found older threads that explain that lpr is for network printing, while lp is a wrapper around lpr...
I just enjoyed reading:
- http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html
linux printing cups lpr
edited Jan 20 at 18:44
Superdooperhero
1035
asked Feb 4 '13 at 17:01
gavenkoagavenkoa
92241831
My Debian distro provide the lp and lpr commands for printing from CUPS.
I am a noob to printing in UNIX but have other tech skills.
I tried to find a difference in man lp and man lpr. It seems that lp only have more options...
The gv utility uses lp. I found older threads that explain that lpr is for network printing, while lp is a wrapper around lpr...
I just enjoyed reading:
- http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html
linux printing cups lpr
linux printing cups lpr
edited Jan 20 at 18:44
Superdooperhero
1035
asked Feb 4 '13 at 17:01
gavenkoagavenkoa
92241831
edited Jan 20 at 18:44
Superdooperhero
1035
asked Feb 4 '13 at 17:01
gavenkoagavenkoa
92241831
edited Jan 20 at 18:44
Superdooperhero
1035
edited Jan 20 at 18:44
Superdooperhero
1035
edited Jan 20 at 18:44
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asked Feb 4 '13 at 17:01
gavenkoagavenkoa
92241831
asked Feb 4 '13 at 17:01
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LPR is part of the original BSD printing system. It was fairly simple and straightforward, but it didn't have all the management capabilities that large print environments wanted. You could hack it to do all sorts of things by shoving filters in the right place, but it was pretty kludgy. It also included a very limited network functionality allowing you to send jobs to a remote printer, but since the protocol was only designed with plain text in mind, it never really had provisions for determining types of documents and translating them to what the printer could understand. Ad-hoc workarounds helped. Since the network protocol was so simple, lots and lots of network printers support it.
System V designed a bigger system which allowed you to have things like printer classes, and a print job would go to the first free printer in the class. (For example, if you had a machine room with three printers.) It also tried to build in more formalized support for filters and things like that, but alas, it's also really, really old and not really designed for networked environments.
Nowadays, nobody really uses either system. CUPS has taken over the print systems, but it offers the command line tools for both lpr and SYSV printing (lp). That's just for compatibility. You can use either command you find easiest.
answered Feb 4 '13 at 17:30
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If CUPS have taken over then what is the CUPS command used instead of lp and lpr?
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LPR is part of the original BSD printing system. It was fairly simple and straightforward, but it didn't have all the management capabilities that large print environments wanted. You could hack it to do all sorts of things by shoving filters in the right place, but it was pretty kludgy. It also included a very limited network functionality allowing you to send jobs to a remote printer, but since the protocol was only designed with plain text in mind, it never really had provisions for determining types of documents and translating them to what the printer could understand. Ad-hoc workarounds helped. Since the network protocol was so simple, lots and lots of network printers support it.
System V designed a bigger system which allowed you to have things like printer classes, and a print job would go to the first free printer in the class. (For example, if you had a machine room with three printers.) It also tried to build in more formalized support for filters and things like that, but alas, it's also really, really old and not really designed for networked environments.
Nowadays, nobody really uses either system. CUPS has taken over the print systems, but it offers the command line tools for both lpr and SYSV printing (lp). That's just for compatibility. You can use either command you find easiest.
answered Feb 4 '13 at 17:30
Alan ShutkoAlan Shutko
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If CUPS have taken over then what is the CUPS command used instead of lp and lpr?
– Superdooperhero
Jan 20 at 18:43
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LPR is part of the original BSD printing system. It was fairly simple and straightforward, but it didn't have all the management capabilities that large print environments wanted. You could hack it to do all sorts of things by shoving filters in the right place, but it was pretty kludgy. It also included a very limited network functionality allowing you to send jobs to a remote printer, but since the protocol was only designed with plain text in mind, it never really had provisions for determining types of documents and translating them to what the printer could understand. Ad-hoc workarounds helped. Since the network protocol was so simple, lots and lots of network printers support it.
System V designed a bigger system which allowed you to have things like printer classes, and a print job would go to the first free printer in the class. (For example, if you had a machine room with three printers.) It also tried to build in more formalized support for filters and things like that, but alas, it's also really, really old and not really designed for networked environments.
Nowadays, nobody really uses either system. CUPS has taken over the print systems, but it offers the command line tools for both lpr and SYSV printing (lp). That's just for compatibility. You can use either command you find easiest.
answered Feb 4 '13 at 17:30
Alan ShutkoAlan Shutko
3,56811422
2
If CUPS have taken over then what is the CUPS command used instead of lp and lpr?
– Superdooperhero
Jan 20 at 18:43
add a comment |
LPR is part of the original BSD printing system. It was fairly simple and straightforward, but it didn't have all the management capabilities that large print environments wanted. You could hack it to do all sorts of things by shoving filters in the right place, but it was pretty kludgy. It also included a very limited network functionality allowing you to send jobs to a remote printer, but since the protocol was only designed with plain text in mind, it never really had provisions for determining types of documents and translating them to what the printer could understand. Ad-hoc workarounds helped. Since the network protocol was so simple, lots and lots of network printers support it.
System V designed a bigger system which allowed you to have things like printer classes, and a print job would go to the first free printer in the class. (For example, if you had a machine room with three printers.) It also tried to build in more formalized support for filters and things like that, but alas, it's also really, really old and not really designed for networked environments.
Nowadays, nobody really uses either system. CUPS has taken over the print systems, but it offers the command line tools for both lpr and SYSV printing (lp). That's just for compatibility. You can use either command you find easiest.
answered Feb 4 '13 at 17:30
Alan ShutkoAlan Shutko
3,56811422
LPR is part of the original BSD printing system. It was fairly simple and straightforward, but it didn't have all the management capabilities that large print environments wanted. You could hack it to do all sorts of things by shoving filters in the right place, but it was pretty kludgy. It also included a very limited network functionality allowing you to send jobs to a remote printer, but since the protocol was only designed with plain text in mind, it never really had provisions for determining types of documents and translating them to what the printer could understand. Ad-hoc workarounds helped. Since the network protocol was so simple, lots and lots of network printers support it.
System V designed a bigger system which allowed you to have things like printer classes, and a print job would go to the first free printer in the class. (For example, if you had a machine room with three printers.) It also tried to build in more formalized support for filters and things like that, but alas, it's also really, really old and not really designed for networked environments.
Nowadays, nobody really uses either system. CUPS has taken over the print systems, but it offers the command line tools for both lpr and SYSV printing (lp). That's just for compatibility. You can use either command you find easiest.
answered Feb 4 '13 at 17:30
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If CUPS have taken over then what is the CUPS command used instead of lp and lpr?
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If CUPS have taken over then what is the CUPS command used instead of lp and lpr?
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