[cups.development] Filter/Backend

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Nov 22 2006 06:03, Luis Lobo wrote:
>
>I've figured out a topology for the solution, but still have a doubt.
>After the Job is passed to my filter, is it possible to 'suspend' it 
>until the user requests printing?

Create a printer to connect to AppSocket/JetDirect socket://localhost:9/ 
and enable the 'discard' service of xinetd. Make it the default 
destination.

Your filter may then repost the print job to a different queue which 
connects to the real printer.

>How do I resume the printing process so the job gets delivered to the 
>real backend ?


	-`J'
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