passing data through CUPS

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Feb 8 03:24:51 PST 2005


Anonymous wrote:
> Is there a methodolgy to pass data through cups from the application
> without having it turned into a printer command language? This would
> be useful for including commands that the driver does not necessarily
> know how to create. Example; sending commands to encode data in a
> RFID tag on a printer that offers a RFID encoder. In that case the
> commands and data would need to change on a document by document
> basis. If there was a way to invoke a pass-through mode for a
> selected string of data, it would help with this sort of issue.

Strictly speaking, no.  You can print "raw" files (which are ready
to be printed by the printer) and embed custom PostScript commands
for PostScript printers, but otherwise the driver has to know how to
embed the commands.

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