HP 510x Print Server manual Configuring for LPD Printing Introduction, About LPD

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Configuring for LPD Printing

Introduction

The HP Jetdirect print server contains an LPD (Line Printer Daemon) Server module to support LPD printing. This chapter describes how to configure the HP Jetdirect print server for use with various systems that support LPD printing. These instructions include:

●LPD on UNIX Systems

■Configuring BSD-based UNIX systems using LPD

■Configuring print queues using the SAM utility (HP-UX systems)

●LPD on Windows Systems

About LPD

Line Printer Daemon (LPD) refers to the protocol and programs associated with line-printer spooling services that may be installed on various TCP/IP systems.

Some of the widely used systems in which the HP Jetdirect print server functionality supports LPD include:

●Berkeley-based (BSD) UNIX systems

●HP-UX

●Solaris

●IBM AIX

●Linux

●Microsoft Windows

●Apple Mac OS

The UNIX configuration examples in this section show the syntax for BSD-based UNIX systems. The syntax for your system may vary. See your system documentation for the correct syntax.

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