Device URI for cups

Michael R Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Jul 12 16:48:39 PDT 2005


Mohit Kumar wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have written a script for calling my execuatable when ever a user uses my backend. However, I was not clear of the fact as to how could I display a device URI which could be used to refer to my backend.
> 
> For example, I have a script which finally calls ps2pdf. I have put this in the backend directory, restarted cups but nothing new comes when I execute lpinfo -v. However when I use the KDE Printer pdfdistiller script, then I can see direct pdf as one of the outputs of lpinfo -v.
> 
> Any help in this regard would be highly helpful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mohit

See:

     man backend

     Software Programmers Manual

     CUPS Book

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