Virtual Printers

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have been trying to get virtual pritning to work in some way with CUPS. i have read the info on "pseudo-printers" but have not been able to actuallty get one to work the way I would like. I come from an AIX printing background and with its print system I can define a virtual device which essentially is the "end of the pipe" for print jobs. eg. I create a print Q select the printer connection, model, driver so I get all of the nice pre-processing from the driver etc. Then the print job is piped to the vitrual device that I have created. The virtual device is usually a shell script that I use to do some final formatting or processing before re-queueing the job to another raw Q.

Is this possible with CUPS?

Here is specifically what I want to do:

create a print Q in CUPS that accepts jobs from remote windows clients, grabs the job input file pipes it to a shell script and once the shell script exits, the job is done.

Is this possible?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

mike