From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 15 23:30:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C3C116A479 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:30:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reed@pilchuck.reedmedia.net) Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62E943D4C for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:30:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reed@pilchuck.reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local (Exim 4.44) id 1Fr1Ig-00013L-8e for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:30:58 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:30:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: "Jeremy C. Reed" Subject: spool-less and server-less printing X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:30:55 -0000 What do you use for your workstation printing? I am looking for suggestions and experiences with using printing software without any daemon running and not needing to queue the print jobs. (It is okay if remote is a server -- I am just talking about a workstation.) I recently read that foomatic-rip can be used as a stand-alone lpr alternative. It uses PPD files, a render like ghostscript, and is said to work with all known spoolers. Can lprng or cups be used without having a daemon running? (Like for printing directly to an attached parallel port printer.) Jeremy C. Reed