At 10:17 PM 28/7/95 -0700, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>What is LPR / LPD ???
 
Line Printer Remote / Line Printer Daemon.   They are actually opposite ends
of the same thing (a protocol).   If they (?) had adopted this naming
convention for file transfers, we'd have FTPR and FTPD.  LPR is what you
have at the client end to send spoolfiles from your machine to a remote
printer.  LPD is the process the receives spoolfiles from the network and
submits them to the local printing queues.  Both protocols are typically
supported on Unix systems.
 
Quest Software and others have software that supports both - so that the
HP3000 (using the LPD process) can receive spoolfiles from other systems
running an LPR process, and will send spoolfiles from HP3000 print queues to
remote systems or printers that support LPD.  Note: you can get nework-wise
printers that act as LPD servers, without any controlling "computers" (in
the traditional sense).  In other words, they have sufficient smarts
on-board to support the protocol.  I know the latest Jet-Direct cards
support this, as do a variety of other printers like Qume.
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