jetpipe(8)

jetpipe8

Bind a printer device to a tcp port

Usage

jetpipe <printerdevice> <portnumber>

Overview

jetpipe will bind a printer device to a given portnumber so the printer can be accessed through the JetDirect protocol from a remote client.

Examples

/usr/sbin/jetpipe /dev/usblp0 9100

The above commandline will bind the USB printer on /dev/usblp0 to port 9100 where it can be acessed through the JetDirect protocol from a cups client

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–10

Availability

jetpipe is part of ltsp package and the latest versions are available in source form from https://launchpad.net/products/ltsp (link to URL https://launchpad.net/products/ltsp) .

Author

copyright 2006 Oliver Grawert <[email protected]>, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

From ltsp-client-core 5.18.12-3 in Debian 10 (Buster). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.