[cups.general] Virtual Printers

[Jerome Alet]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:54:51PM -0400, Anonymous wrote:
> 
> 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?

Yes.

> Any help is greatly appreciated.

  http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/Tea4CUPS/action_Presentation
  
If you come from an AIX background, you may be especially interested  
in reading this experience :

  http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/Tea4CUPS/seeQuotes
  
hth  

Jerome Alet