Can CUPS support endless printing?
Michael Sweet
mike at easysw.com
Sat Dec 23 05:31:53 PST 2006
Yu Guo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a filter for themal printer with endless paper. Now, I can get the raster data by calling functions cupsRasterReadHeader() and cupsRasterReadPixels().
>
> Is there any way I could ingore the page and only print the raster data in a endless way?
You can, however there is no way to get an unbounded or continuous
raster stream. For continuous printing, you probably don't want to
use a traditional spooler like CUPS but just stream the data from
your application.
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