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From: argusops@argus-btn.co.uk (Richard Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Printing to a network printer?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 18:39:58 GMT
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Please can anyone tell me how to print to a network printer using
(hopefully) a standard unix command?

lp is fine for a local print
lpr is great for printing to a remote host

but I need to print direct to the IP address of the network printer!

Please help

Richard Bennett
SPCo
argusops@argus-btn.co.uk