[cups.general] Printer to imageRunner Mailbox

[Jeff Hardy]

If you are looking to write a filter or backend of some kind, Canon's
developer website has some good info on a number of their models.  For
the imageRunner 2270s I am working with right now, there are sample PJL
commands that can stuff things into a mailbox.  Generally it works like
this:

^[%-12345X at PJL JOB
@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET USERNAME="jeff"
@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET DEVICE=MAILBOX
@PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET MAILBOXNUMBER=0
@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL
testing...testing...testing
^[%-12345X at PJL EOJ
^[%-12345X

I have a Perl script that can do this, but I haven't gotten it to work
with anything but trivial PCL jobs.

I am trying to force a bunch of imageRunner 2270s to print everything
into mailbox 0 (if you are interested why, I'd be happy to share :).
I've been trying to do this with the binary gobbledygook the Windows
vendor drivers produce (whether PS, PCL5, or PCL6) but it has been
problematic.  I would settle for printing to a hold queue of some sort.
Hold queues supposedly exist on most multifunction devices, and I have
been told they exist on these, but I can find no documentation on it
whatsoever.  Now I am being told it does not exist on this model.  Yay.

So again, if anyone has any further insight into how something like this
can be accomplished, I'd be very interested. :)




On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 09:07 -0600, David Schlenk wrote:
> For imageRunners I've generally given up and set it up as a raw queue  
> and used the Windows PCL drivers. Supposedly some of them work with  
> all the copier's functionality if you use Brightq, but I don't have a  
> lot of good feelings for that app.
> 
> If anyone's ever accomplished more than just basic printing using the  
> windows PS drivers and CUPS, I'd be very interested as well.
> 
> On Dec 9, 2005, at 8:57 AM, Nick Couchman wrote:
> 
> > I'm wondering if anyone has been able to get CUPS to print to the  
> > mailbox (instead of directly to the printer) on any of the Canon  
> > imageRunner 5000 series printers.  I'm sure there's some part of  
> > the device URI or maybe even a PostScript option that you can use  
> > to specify the destination, but Canon seems to have dropped the  
> > support for the 5000 series off their web site, so documentation is  
> > hard to come by.
> 
> David Schlenk
> Operating Systems Analyst
> Bethel University
> david-schlenk at bethel.edu
> 
> 
> 
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