Setting up network printer via router

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:51:04AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I have 1 printer and 3 computers.  My GVC ADSL-modem/router/gateway
> also has a printer port.  It's address is 192.168.123.254.  Can this
> be done easily set up linux?  There's no need to worry about contention
> because I'll only print manually.

Does it listen on the lpd port?  If so you can probably setup cupsys to
send jobs to that ip and port using the lpd protocol and the right
driver for the printer.  Windows MIGHT be able to print to that,
although I haven't tried it in a long time.

My farther just got a new xerox printer with an ethernet port and
postscript level 3 natively, which sure made setting up printing trivial
from all OSs involved and prints much faster from the slower machines
than when they had to rasterize the prints themselves for the inkjet.

Lennart Sorensen
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