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The future of #lpr and lpd, 20260220,
by Dag-Erling S,
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2026-February/003857.html
-- deprecation notice in #FreeBSD v1[45]; possible removal in v16.
I used lpr on FreeBSD about 20 years ago. I had a printer that, in theory, could print PostScript, but had such a slow processor that it could rasterise one page a minute. I set up lpr on another machine as a print server to use GhostScript to convert to PCL and forward to the printer. Much faster.
Since then, if I’ve ever needed to print from FreeBSD, I’ve used CUPS.
@david_chisnall @ax6761 All the good enterprise printers have lpr/lpd built in to the printer. I shut down my last lpd print server a decade ago, and just use what is built into the printer if needed.
