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Specify different username when printing to a lpr printer

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Mar 15, 20264421 views
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My school requires me to use a different username than my Windows username in order to print. With Linux I could just specify , but there is no such option for Windows (and even if it had, it still wouldn't be a "native support" -- I would love to print from Windows applications and not from the co…

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lpr

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Fix for: Specify different username when printing to a lpr printer

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How are you connecting to the printer? If you're connecting to it using IPP (a possible scenario if the printer is behind ), you set the printer using an IPP URL. As IPP is made over HTTP, you could try good old (and IPP allows SSL (so HTTPS), but I…

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