lpd and printcap with an IP address?

[Mike Erdely]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:06:17PM +0100, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote:
> after my post to misc, I was wondering how to print a file (ps) with lpd...
> 
> I have never used lpd. I just have the IP address of the printer,
> nothing else... How can I add an IP entry to the printcap file? Since
> this is a newbie question I am only writing to you, to keep misc
> clean...

Take a look at the second entry in /etc/printcap.
Substitute "printhost" with the IP address of your printer.

-ME