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		tonyedgecombe on Aug 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat I suppose if you have a printer that doesn't support PostScript or PDF then you could pipe the output through GhostScript. This is what CUPS is relying on anyway.

simonh on Aug 4, 2021 [–]

Right, there's no magic pixie dust in CUPS that you can't manually reproduce using a concoction of software packages, command line incantations and maybe some scripts. But then you're just re-implementing CUPS, manually.

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