alok.padey at gmail.com
Wed Nov 23 17:34:01 PST 2016
I belive you need a printer server & client setup. Try CUPS. Cups is modular printing system which allows a computer to act as a printer server. It can accept print jobs from clients, process them, and send them to the appropriate printer. More details can be accessed over net. On Nov 24, 2016 6:29 AM, "Jörn-Ingo Weigert" <jiweigert at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list, > > I am in the process of writing a client / server program for managing a > cyber cafe using Qt 5.7 framework. > Now I am stuck on managing the printing accounting, especially there are > some basic questions, I hope someone could give me the right directions: > > 1. Can I create a fake / virtual printer on the client pc, but redirect the > print internally to an existing network printer which are served by the > server? The server could be based on Windows or Linux OS. > If yes, what is the easiest way to do so? > > 2. If a "virtual printer" is not possible, how can I hook on an existing > printer on client pc to be able to a) show a custom print preview dialog > with showing up printing costs/ sum to pay etc. Is this possible for any > printer type served by the server? > > I just want to be sure that a customer on a client pc are not able to > bypass the (ac-)counting of printjobs as required by my client. > > I hope I can describe my problem, if not please ask. > > Kind regards, > > Jörn-Ingo Weigert > _______________________________________________ > cups-devel mailing list > cups-devel at cups.org > https://lists.cups.org/mailman/listinfo/cups-devel >