[cups.general] Re: Showing job on printer display

[Paul Ortman]

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Michael Sweet wrote:
> 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...)

Forgive my ignorance, but do you mean that when I send a print job to
(for instance) my HP Laserjet 4250 using the HP Laserjet 4250 PS ppd
that on LCD of the printer should be displayed the username of the job
submitter?  It currently does not do this -- instead it just says
"Printing from Tray 2" or similar.  I've hacked around some of this by
using Pykota's pre and post job hooks to call out to a little executable
that changes the LCD.  If I could get away from that little executable
I'd be quite pleased.

So, I'm wondering, is there some configuration in either the PPD, CUPS,
or on the printer itself that needs to be set to get this working?

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