Infrared Printer Support
If you are fortunate enough to have a printer with infrared support (such as the Canon BJC 50 or BJC 80, HP LaserJet 6MP or HP LaserJet 2100TN) and a Linux system with an infrared port (such as a laptop), here is good news: You can print without a printer cable! Recent efforts in Linux device driver development have yielded infrared printing (and networking) support, and the latest Linux kernels now have IrDA support built in. IrDA support is supplied as a series of loadable kernel modules and support features such as system logging, networking, serial-port emulation, and printing.
You'll definitely need to read Werner Heuser's IR-HOWTO, found at http://home.snafu.de/wehe/ir-howto.html. Development of IrDA for Linux is ...
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