[cups.general] print job monitoring

[Jerome Alet]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:13:31PM -0500, Jose wrote:
> I need to implement a printing system able to notify an external 
> application when the print job has actually been printed by the 
> printer or otherwise notify the error. After reviewing the 
> documentation of CUPS I couldn't see if CUPS provides such feature 
> or not. I know CUPS implements IPP which allows notifying the print 
> job progress (print job being printed, print job completed, etc) but 
> I couldn't see if CUPS implements that part of the RFC and if so how 
> to use it by an external application. 
> 
> Does anybody know if that is possible either using IPP, SNMP or 
> any other method with CUPS? 

I believe that CUPS v1.2 will introduce some notification feature.

In the meantime, or for maximal versatility, you should use
something like Tea4CUPS, IMHO.

bye

Jerome Alet