[cups.general] a /dev/null printer?

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Thu Mar 3 07:56:38 PST 2005


Simply use the device URI file:/dev/null

You will not need a PPD file or a driver, /dev/null understands 
everything and prints it perfectly in super-economy mode.

    Till


Anonymous wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a way to create a "black hole" printer where jobs sent to it would go straight into /dev/null?  We have certain automated processes which require output to a print queue, but we don't really want to produce output.
> 
> Thanks!
> Mike
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