Showing job on printer display

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Wed Apr 26 08:56:39 PDT 2006


Ramiro Alba wrote:
> Hello Everybody:
> 
> I have been using lprng for long and now I am migrating to CUPS. It
> is fantastic, but I would like to know how to show on printer display
> the job (user an document) that it is currently printing. This is
> what I 'lprng' does and it is quite usefull.

This should already happen for most PostScript printers; for non-PS
printers you need to have a driver that supports the necessary
commands (the CUPS DDK's rastertopclx driver supports them, for
example...)

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