banner pages in cups

st.graf st.graf at fz-juelich.de
Fri Jun 2 06:22:44 PDT 2006


Michael De Vlaminck wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using cups 1.1 and I need to use bannerpages with it. We allready 
> have a script that generates these bannerpages using the username, 
> hostname and printqueuename. It's a shellscript which generates postscript.
> Is it possible to use this script in cups so this is executed and 
> printed before every printjob, no matter what the user chooses for a 
> bannerpage in for example, kprinter?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> Michael De Vlaminck

Hi!

Have a look at "tea4CUPS". It is an alternative backend script to 
intercept everey job before the real backend is called. There you can 
call your own shell-script to modify the job (and to add a headerpage).
  We use it and it works fine :)

Stephan




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