Inevitably, managers of network print environments will have to find ways to customize print requests. This customization often involves sending jobs to specific printers based on certain criteria or manipulating the print data in any number of ways. Network print managers must try to balance the print loads between printers and ensure that [...]

LPD stands for Line Printer Daemon; it is the part that receives and processes the request. A “daemon” is a server or agent. The LPD Protocol Specification is documented in RFC 1179, Line Printer Daemon Protocol, dated August 1990, edited by L. McLaughlin III, and downloadable. LPD can also be referenced as the Berkeley printing [...]