Printing to a network printer by IP address

[Gerard Lally <lists+netbsd.users%netmail.ie@localhost>]

(Apologies if this ends up double-posted.)

(System: NetBSD 7 amd64)

Is is possible to print to an ethernet-connected printer with just the
standard NetBSD print commands (LPD, LPR), without going through CUPS?
The printer is connected directly to the network switch and has a fixed
IP address on the LAN; there is no print server. It is a business-class
Ricoh Aficio MP C2800 Postscript and PCL printer.

I have a hard time getting a conceptual overview of printing in BSD and
Linux to be honest; it seems to be a bit of a minefield with postscript,
ghostscript, CUPS, filters, foomatic, drivers, spooling, line printing
and so on.

At the moment I would like to print a copy of some of the text
configuration files in /etc but it would be useful eventually to be
able to print documents formatted with graphics as well.

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Gerard Lally