Changed some English, added a comma, fixed a title reference,
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<indexterm><primary>LPD spooling system</primary></indexterm>
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<indexterm><primary>printing</primary></indexterm>
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<para>FreeBSD can be used to print to a wide variety of printers, from the
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<para>FreeBSD can be used to print with a wide variety of printers, from the
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oldest impact printer to the latest laser printers, and everything in
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between, allowing you to produce high quality printed output from the
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between, allowing you to produce high-quality printed output from the
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applications you run.</para>
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<para>FreeBSD can also be configured to act as a print server on a
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>How to print to printers connected to other computers.</para>
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<para>How to print with printers connected to other computers.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>How to print to printers connected directly to the
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<para>How to print with printers connected directly to the
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network.</para>
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</listitem>
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<sect1 id="printing-intro-spooler">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>In order to use printers with FreeBSD, you will need to set
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<para>In order to use printers with FreeBSD, you may set
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them up to work with the Berkeley line printer spooling system,
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also known as the <application>LPD</application> spooling system.
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also known as the <application>LPD</application> spooling system,
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or just <application>LPD</application>.
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It is the standard printer control system in FreeBSD. This
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chapter introduces the <application>LPD</application> spooling
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system, often simply called <application>LPD</application>, and
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chapter introduces <application>LPD</application> and
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will guide you through its configuration.</para>
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<para>If you are already familiar with
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<application>LPD</application> or another printer spooling
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system, you may wish to skip to section <link
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linkend="printing-intro-setup">Setting up the spooling
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system</link>.</para>
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linkend="printing-intro-setup">Basic Setup</link>.</para>
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<para><application>LPD</application> controls everything about a
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host's printers. It is responsible for a number of things:</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>See section <link linkend="printing-advanced">Advanced
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Printer Setup</link> to find out how to print a variety of
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Printer Setup</link> to learn how to print a variety of
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special file formats, to print header pages, to print across a
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network, to control access to printers, and to do printer
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accounting.</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>If you are setting up a printer that uses a network protocol
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to accept data to print instead of a serial or parallel interface,
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to accept data to print instead of a computer's local interfaces,
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see <link linkend="printing-advanced-network-net-if">Printers With
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Networked Data Stream Interfaces</link>.</para>
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</indexterm>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis>Serial</emphasis> interfaces, also known
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as RS232C or RS232D, or COM ports, use a serial port
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as RS-232 or COM ports, use a serial port
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on your computer to send data to the printer. Serial
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interfaces are common in the computer industry and cables
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are readily available and also easy to construct. Serial
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<para><emphasis>Parallel</emphasis> interfaces use a
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parallel port on your computer to send data to the
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printer. Parallel interfaces are common in the PC market
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and are faster than RS232 serial.
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and are faster than RS-232 serial.
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Cables are readily available but more difficult to
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construct by hand. There are usually no communications
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options with parallel interfaces, making their
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<listitem>
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<para>USB interfaces, named for the Universal Serial
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Bus, can run at even faster speeds than parallel or
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RS232 serial interfaces. Cables are simple and cheap.
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USB is superior to RS232 Serial and to Parallel for
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RS-232 serial interfaces. Cables are simple and cheap.
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USB is superior to RS-232 Serial and to Parallel for
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printing, but it is not as well supported under &unix;
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systems. A way to avoid this problem is to purchase a
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printer that has both a USB interface and a Parallel
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and USB gives you two-way. Newer parallel ports (EPP and
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ECP) and printers
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can communicate in both directions under FreeBSD when a
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IEEE1284 compliant cable is used.</para>
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IEEE-1284-compliant cable is used.</para>
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<indexterm><primary>PostScript</primary></indexterm>
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<para>Two-way communication to the printer over a parallel
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port is generally done in one of two ways. The first method
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uses a custom built printer driver for FreeBSD that speaks
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uses a custom-built printer driver for FreeBSD that speaks
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the proprietary language used by the printer. This is
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common with inkjet printers and can be used for reporting
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ink levels and other status information. The second
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communication: you ask the printer for its page count (how
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many pages it has printed in its lifetime), then send the
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user's job, then ask again for its page count. Subtract the
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two values and you know how much paper to charge the
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two values and you know how much paper to charge to the
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user.</para>
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</sect4>
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both should give you complete guidance.</para>
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<para>Remember which parallel port you used on the computer.
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The first parallel port is <filename>/dev/ppc0</filename> to
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FreeBSD; the second is <filename>/dev/ppc1</filename>, and so
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The first parallel port is <filename>ppc0</filename> to
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FreeBSD; the second is <filename>ppc1</filename>, and so
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on. The printer device name uses the same scheme:
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<filename>/dev/lpt0</filename> for the printer on the first
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parallel ports etc.</para>
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the printer, usually through front-panel controls or DIP
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switches on the printer. Choose the highest
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<literal>bps</literal> (bits per second, sometimes
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<emphasis>baud rate</emphasis>) rate that both your computer
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<emphasis>baud rate</emphasis>) that both your computer
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and the printer can support. Choose 7 or 8 data bits; none,
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even, or odd parity; and 1 or 2 stop bits. Also choose a flow
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control protocol: either none, or XON/XOFF (also known as
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<sect4 id="printing-naming">
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<title>Naming the Printer</title>
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<para>The first (easy) step is to pick a name for your printer
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<para>The first (easy) step is to pick a name for your printer.
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It really does not matter whether you choose functional or
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whimsical names since you can also provide a number of aliases
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for the printer.</para>
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:sh:</programlisting>
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<para>Note how we used the correct format: the first line starts
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in the leftmost column, and subsequent lines are indented with
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a single TAB. Every line in an entry except the last ends in
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in the leftmost column, and subsequent lines are indented.
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Every line in an entry except the last ends in
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a backslash character.</para>
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</sect4>
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<para>Note that the name of the printer starts in the first
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column but all other entries describing the printer should be
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indented with a tab and each line escaped with a
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indented and each line end escaped with a
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backslash.</para>
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<para>If you do not specify a spooling directory with
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<para><application>CUPS</application> uses the Internet Printing
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Protocol (<acronym>IPP</acronym>) as the basis for managing
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print jobs and queues. The Line Printer Daemon
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(<acronym>LPD</acronym>) Server Message Block
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(<acronym>LPD</acronym>), Server Message Block
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(<acronym>SMB</acronym>), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect)
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protocols are also supported with reduced functionality. CUPS
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adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description
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