Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have a non-root account on a shared
server, on which the system administrators do not support
printing because of past experience with stalled and runaway
jobs. For the same reason, they do not allow installation of a
user-land spooler. How can I set up printing without a local
queue?  share|improve this question It may be easier (and more
polite) to ask the system administrator nicely if they could set
printing up for you. If you have a good reason for it, they
should be quite happy to do it, and there's less risk of them
breaking it (intentionally or otherwise) later on. –  Scott Jan
10 '11 at 15:40  4 Answers 4  up vote 2 down vote accepted  Ask
your system administrators to install the client parts of CUPS.
(You didn't say which Linux you use, so I can't tell you which
package names that would be...)  This will allow you printing
without local spooling, provided that a remote CUPS print server
allows you access:  lpstat -h remote.cups.host -p  will then
return you the names of