[MacTUG] Lpadmin: “rumours of my death are exaggerated” ;-)

[John Jaray]

Hi Don,

I am running Monterey on one of my Macs and can confirm that LPD still exists.

Thanks,
John

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From: Donald Duff-McCracken <dsmccrac at uwaterloo.ca>
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Subject: Lpadmin: “rumours of my death are exaggerated” ;-)

At MacTUG today we were talking about the LPD printing protocol (which we now must use for the W-store printers, as SMB cannot be used).

A concern was that Apple has been talking about deprecation of it for years and concerns were raised that is may not be included in Monterey.

I just tried it on my wife’s new 14” MacBook Pro which I am quite certain shipped with Monterey* and it is present. I also checked and the option for adding an LPD printer via the system prefers pane is also still present.

At any rate I encourage others to check it out to verify this on macs that have a clean install of Monterey, but it looks we still have Lpadmin - for now at least!

*It was important to test this in a Mac that has a “clean install” of Monterey vs trying it on an older Mac that has merely been upgraded to Monterey. In those cases one could not be sure if the Lpadmin binary was merely a relic from the old OS




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