Printer Alias

[Anonymous]

Thanks, i'm trying that now, any general rules / considerations to be taken to write cups backends (i've never done it before)?

Ciro
> Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> >
> > It's posible to maske an alias printer that would send each job it receives to other 2 printers?. Let me explain, i would like to have a repository of printed reports, i have a laser printer working with cups and a spool for pdf creation too, i would like to send jobs, lets say, to the reports spool, and this will send a copy to the real printer and another to the pdf creator script.
> >
> > I know i can save all the jobs with the PreserveJobFiles option, but i would like to preview those reports and even chose to reprint only some pages from it (for example pages 10-25 out of 300)
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
> write a backend script that temporarily saves the PostScript job, feeds
> it
> through your PDF creating script and issues a print (lp or lpr) command
> for your real printer.
>
> Helge
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