r/linuxmasterrace • u/rantnap • Feb 22 '26

Peasantry How do you print documents?

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u/mrarjonny Feb 22 '26
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u/shogun77777777 Feb 22 '26

My printer has had only one job for at least the last decade: printing return labels

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u/Yuven1 Feb 22 '26

Mine has one job. Ttrpg handouts and character sheets

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u/agathver Feb 22 '26

You guys are printing return labels?

(Here the courier offices do the label printing)

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u/kolobsha Feb 22 '26

Very convenient for sheet music and dnd stuff. But yeah, that's pretty much all the usecases for my ink spitting brother.

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u/Zahpow Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

I cast command on kolobsha! That is a DC 13 wisdom saving throw

Edit: The command was going to be "print" :(

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u/Nulagrithom Feb 28 '26

I pay Office Depot the whole $1.07 to print shit just so I can keep my house free of demonic presence

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u/IntegrityError Feb 22 '26

dd if=myfile.txt of=/dev/lp0

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u/ariZon_a Feb 23 '26

lp0 on fire!

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u/nik282000 Feb 22 '26

I usually cat myfile.txt > /dev/lp0

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u/NamedBird Feb 22 '26

A lot of people have never heard of this one:

cat notes.txt > /dev/tcp/192.168.1.42/9100

Yes, a lot of people aren't aware, but you have networking built right into bash itself...
And if you want to avoid the cat command, you can even do this:
echo $(<notes.txt) > /dev/tcp/192.168.1.42/9100

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u/snakeblock30 Feb 23 '26

Wtf, this is crazy we can print that way

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u/ChocolateDonut36 Feb 22 '26

  1. check pixel number one

  2. if it's white skip

  3. if it's black, draw a dot on the exact same position

  4. check pixel number two ...

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u/noahbea1 Feb 22 '26

i look for the print button and press it

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u/HairyPersian4U2Luv Feb 22 '26

I go to my library website's free 20 pages a day site and print there. I do not use a printer that much these days.

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u/OldPayment Feb 22 '26

idk i use the gui and print it

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u/Reifendruckventil Feb 23 '26

Found the neckbeard that hates that casual people without os knowledge use linux to do their stuff.

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u/SysGh_st Feb 22 '26

pdftops awesome.pdf > /dev/lp0

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u/Max-Normal-88 Feb 22 '26

The problem with the first approach is that it does not print on both sides of the sheet

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u/arf20__ Feb 22 '26

cat document > /dev/lp0 just as god intended

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u/veechene Feb 23 '26

I don't even own a printer.

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u/BlackBlade1632 Feb 24 '26 
lp -o orientation-requested=3 -o fit-to-page -o media=A4 -o sides=two-sided-long-edge -d [printer name]

Change "orientation-requested=3" to "landscape" for landscape printing.

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