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Re:Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer by mrighele on Friday October 04, 2024 @05:28PM (#41745758)
> Using the `lp`/`lpr` executable like in other comments requires the printer to be registered with CUPS first.

In modern Linux distros, lp/lpd are usually shims provided for backward compatibility, but it doesn't have to be that way. For example FreeBSD seems to provide support for lpd without for cups [1], although I don't see any real advantage in doing that.

[1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/printing/

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Re:Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer by SoftTalker on Friday October 04, 2024 @10:28PM (#41747293)
OpenBSD does as well. The advantage is you don’t need CUPS.
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Re:Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer by jolmg on Sunday October 06, 2024 @01:43AM (#41755019)
But you do still need to register the printer prior to using, or at least have a basic registration set up that works with it.
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