[cups.general] How to send print job to one printer and control code to open cash drawer to another printer (Redirect)

[Jerome Alet]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:41:28PM -0400, Anonymous wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
> 
> Tried looking for solution to this problem on several forum, without success. This is our setup on a RHEL ES 3 server:
> 
> 1. Dot matrix printer hooked up as samba printer.
> 2. POS (Point Of Sale) printer, Epson, with a cash drawer connected. Also setup as samba printer.
> 
> Opening the cash drawer is done by a Esc sequence.
> 
> We want to send the print job to dot matrix printer and the Esc 
> sequence to Epson to open drawer. On RHEL 2.1, which uses LPRNG, we 
> used an mf_wrapper to send the Esc sequence to Epson and it worked. 
> Is it possible to do similar stuff with CUPS? 


http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/Tea4CUPS/action_Presentation

may help you.

bye

Jerome Alet