[cups.general] Re: Printer to imageRunner Mailbox

[Nick Couchman]

Thanks - I'll try to give it a try here, soon...

Nick Couchman
Systems Integrator
SEAKR Engineering, Inc.
6221 South Racine Circle
Centennial, CO 80111
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>>> On 2005/12/21 at 15:14:26, in message <1135203267.2615.166.camel at fritzdesk.potsdam.edu>, Jeff Hardy <hardyjm at potsdam.edu> wrote:

I have the first version of a filtering backend called "mboxir" posted
at http://fritz.potsdam.edu/projects/cupsapps/ that seems to work pretty
well for the iR2270 I've been working with.  You specify the mailbox in
the URI.

mboxir://0/lpd://123.123.123.123

...will print to mailbox 0.  Still testing things out and it is slightly
a work in progress, but it might be what you are looking for.  It will
only handle postscript, but works for either raw or filtered queues.




On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 10:14 -0500, Nick Couchman wrote:
> Thanks for the response.  I've had equally bad luck trying to find documentation for the imageRunner's that we're using.  Searches on Google just tend to turn up resellers and leasors trying to sell you the  models and little or no documentation.  Guess I'll keep poking around and maybe I'll give the filter/backed a shot.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick Couchman
> 
> > 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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