The LPR Acronym for Line Printer Remote. The UNIX print command. This does not actually print files but rather copies them to a spool area from where a daemon copies them to the printer. service enables you to route documents from the computer to 4.3 BSD Acronym for Berkeley Software Development. TCP/IP print queues on an LPD server. LPR submits jobs to LPD print queues and LPD manages the print queues. TCP/IP Print Services are based on RFC1179, which contains the communications specification for LPR printing.
The LPR included with SPOOL includes these features.
The printer port can be configured to run an LPR command to put a file in the spool and a Windows printer to get the file to the LPD host. For more information, see the Printing to a TCP/IP printer or Printing to a TCP/IP print queue topic.
An LPR command can send a file that is not in the spool to the LPD host. For more information, see the LPR command line approach topic.