Printing to a network printer?

[bones]

Hey all, im kinda stuck here.. dont know here to start.

i have a debian box and want to be able to print to our network printer.
the setup looks like this:

[bunch of hosts] - switch - printer

My fist solution was to share the printer from a windows machine, but thats kind of stupid setup considering it should be possible to send printjobs directly to the printer.

So my question is, how do i print to a network printer thats connected directly to a switch?

perhaps i should mention that i dont use X

// Thanks in advance, bones

[kakariko81280]

If it is a network printer then it should have some network printing protocols running. If you can tell us what kind of printer it is we should be able to figure out which ones it supports.

Once we know that we should be able to help you set it up.

BTW, which printing system are you using on the Linux box?

Chris...

[bones]

Thanks for the reply.

I solved it with:
lpadmin -p name-of-printer -E -v socket://IP-Printer -P Path/To/driver
and some other pretty simple configuration, now i can print using the lp commands.

(im using CUPS)

// Thanks bones