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. BARR TCP/IP Print Services are based on RFC1179, which contains the communications specification for LPR printing.
The LPR included with BARR/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.