[cups.general] Network Card Printers + CUPS

[Anders Blomdell]

> Hello,
>
> I am a product manager for Zebra, a card printer manufacturer. Our  
> products are used by airlines, government agencies, casinos, etc. for  
> id badge creation. Our products are sold with Windows drivers (that  
> pass commands to the device level firmware).
>
> We have a customer that is currently printing by sending direct  
> firmware commands to one of our ethernet printers. The commands  
> originate from an AS/400 system and are passed to a UNIX server/system  
> on their network. The commands contain both magnetic track encoding  
> data as well as text strings and are very limited in terms of what we  
> can print and where. We more typically rely upon assembled image data  
> to print complex images or text. This data is assembled by external  
> applications and our Windows printer driver.
>
> We are trying to understand if/how we could use CUPS or GIMP to better  
> control the layout of the printed information. We'd like to  
> "intercept" the print job, assemble the text data into image data,  
> (leave the magnetic data unchanged), and pass the resulting image on  
> to our network based printer.

Seems like you have to write a custom backend that handles your printer

Regards

Anders Blomdell



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  Anders Blomdell
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