I just wanted to confirm with others here that without a printer specific driver it's not possible to print and/or use the full capabilities of my printer when setting up printing with lpr.
I realize this is a long time between posts. My apologies for asking for assistance when I was missing a basic and necessary component.
I took a look at Dru Lavigne's Unix Printing Basics:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004...SD_Basics.html
According to the section, Researching Your Printer, the three components needed are:
- spooler (lpd, which is provided)
- Ghostscript
- A print driver specific to one's printer
Canon does not provide a BSD driver (Windows, Mac, Linux only), nor does openprinting.org list the Canon Imageclass D1100 series in their open driver list.
I may be confused about Ghostscript as it's mentioned in the above article as a collection of print drivers, yet a printer specific driver is also needed (which also has the PPD file specific to the printer).
Thanks in advance for feedback!