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Originally Posted by quipper8 View Post
If you are printing to a network printer or print server, you can maybe use netcat if you know the port number(most time 9100)

cat /media/mmc1/mytextfile.txt | netcat 192.168.1.1 9100

Works on my printer for plain text files and several graphic formats.
Cool. These days, printers can probably print a few graphics formats because they can print directly off various memory cards. But don't expect to hand it something like a pdf, doc, html, etc.