[cups.general] Forms or Template printing ...

Helge Blischke H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
Thu May 13 06:10:12 PDT 2004


C.Lee Taylor wrote:
> 
> Greetings ...
> 
>         We have a few remote sites using dotmatrix printers at the moment, but
> have to move to Laser printers because we need to start printing Bar Codes.
> 
>         The problem we are seeing, is that nothing can touch job size of a
> dotmatrix printer.  With a dotmatrix print job of 2K, our new Laser
> print jobs are 500K, which, as you could image is killing our remote
> site links.
> 
>         What I was hoping to do, is remove the common data that is sent to the
> printer each time these jobs are printer, and re-add this data when the
> printer job is submitted from the remote CUPS server to the printer.
> 
>         I was thinking that this could be done with filter, but filters apply
> to queues unconditionally.  I have not seen a away that I could say
> something like if printer job name is INVOICE then do something.
> 
>         Second, I don't seem to be able to find away to remove commond data
> from a print job, I'm able to see how to do Watermarks, which I could
> use as a template, but I would have to do this for all jobs ...
> 
>         Another throught, could we put all the fonts that are been used in
> these print jobs on the remote server and not transmit them over the
> remote network?
> 

Why not write a dotmatrix printer emulation in PostScript? Then you
would retain
your tiny file sizes, and enhancing htis emulation for bar code printing
should 
not be an issue.

Helge


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