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   On 02/02/2024 16:29, Scott Alfter wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Anssi Saari   wrote:   
   >> scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) writes:   
   >>   
   >>> More recently, I've migrated my print server (an ancient RPi Model B) from   
   >>> Raspbia^H^H^H^H^H^H^HRPi OS to Alpine, and it's running headless.   
   >>   
   >> And this works for you? I tried to setup a Pi as a print server but it   
   >> was just bad. Printer was a Laserjet but not so old it could take PCL or   
   >> postscript. Something proprietary that has been thoroughly reverse   
   >> engineered long ago, don't remember exactly what right now.   
   >   
   > I had it working at first by (ab)using netcat somewhat, but I eventually   
   > tracked down some ancient print-serving code:   
   >   
   > https://web.archive.org/web/20021127142540/http://www.lprng.co   
   /DISTRIB/UNIXTOOLS/lp_server/lp_server-1.1.6.tgz   
   >   
   > I had to tweak it a bit to build on modern systems (still have to compile it   
   > with -std=c90, though), and I had to tweak it further to work without glibc   
   > so it'd run on Alpine.  The result is up here, along with instructions:   
   >   
   > https://gitlab.alfter.us/salfter/lp_server   
   >   
   > CUPS (running on Gentoo Linux on another host) has been pretty solid talking   
   > to both of the printers I use with it.  Win11 works well with it, too.   
   >   
   > I think I'd tried setting up CUPS on the Raspberry Pi before, but ran into   
   > problems.  Setting it up as a JetDirect-workalike has worked out much   
   > better.   
   >   
   The great thing about JetDirect was the utter lack of cleverness.  Not   
   much could go wrong with it   
      
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