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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.
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The spec sheet for the Canon ImageClass D1150 shows that it uses a proprietary print filter. Most printing applications generate Postscript output. If the printer can accept native Postscript output, it can be sent directly to the printer as Jiggmi described.
Less expensive printers utilize a "raster" format, PCL5e/PCL6 are common raster formats that are well supported by ghostscript. Typically, the "if:" entry in a printcap "filters" the Postscript output into pcl (ps2pcl). I looked at the D1100 Spec sheet for Canon ImagaClass MFC and only the D1180 supports PCL5e/PCL6. The D1150 utilizes Canon's own filter which is only available in binary form