printing to file

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Dec 9 19:00:06 PST 2005


Anonymous wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm installing a new server with cups, and I would like to know if it is possible to print into a file ?
> 
> On my old server, I use LPRng and in my printcap file, I've put "IF=/usr/local/bin/script" so the print job is sent to my "script" which write the output into a file.
> 
> Can I do that with CUPS ?

Sure, the simplest way is to put a script in the backend directory
that conforms to the backend interface ("make backend").

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