HP J7949E manual About LPD, LPD Programs and Protocols, Program Name Purpose of Program

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

●Windows NT/2000

●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.

Note	The LPD functionality can be used with any host
	implementation of LPD that complies with the
	RFC 1179 document. The process for configuring
	printer spoolers, however, may differ. See your
	system documentation for information on
	configuring these systems.

The LPD programs and protocol include the following:

Table 5.1	LPD Programs and Protocols
Program Name		Purpose of Program
lpr		Queues jobs for printing
lpq		Displays print queues
lprm		Removes jobs from print queues
lpc		Controls print queues
lpd		Scans and prints the files if the specified printer is
		connected to the system.
		If the specified printer is connected to another
		system, this process forwards the files to an lpd
		process on the remote system where the files are
		to be printed.

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