Printing remotely over TCP/IP

4.3BSD clients

On 4.3BSD clients and derivatives, use the standard printing commands lpr, lprm, and lpq to do remote printing. The following options are supported when sending a print job to a remote printer attached to an SCO OpenServer system on which RLP has been installed:

lpr -Pprinter_name [-#number_of_copies] [-Ttitle] [-s]

(The -s option uses symbolic links instead of copying the file to the spool directory.)

lpq -Pprinter_name
lprm -Pprinter_name
lprm -Pprinter_name job_number

Only the options listed previously are supported for the lpr, lpq, and lprm commands when used for remote printing. If unsupported options are specified, they are ignored by the print server and the print job is submitted without them.

NOTE: If the remote printer is attached to a print server running 4.3BSD or a derivative, the above restrictions do not apply. In this case, both the client and the print server are running 4.3BSD or a derivative. Remember that RLP is installed only on SCO OpenServer systems.

If printing is to be done locally, all of the options that are normally available for local printing are supported.