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  • When you say "directly print jpeg image files" do you mean send the image to a printer and the printer prints the image on paper? Or are you looking for some other type of rendering the image into another format, such as jpeg -> PDF? Commented May 31 at 2:24
  • I don't own a printer to experiment with ... does this make sense to you? Commented May 31 at 3:53
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    From which printing system package does your lp command come from? Are you using CUPS (in which case the JPEG image conversion lives in the cups-filters-core-drivers package) or some other printing system, like LPRng? Will file -i image.jpeg actually report the file type as image/jpeg? Commented May 31 at 3:54