I am wondering if CUPS can handle a proposed project

Dan McManus mothbitten1 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 20 11:36:34 PDT 2007


I work for a large organization that generates a daily report and splits it out amongst 150 printers using IBM's Infoprint. Infoprint is performing very poorly so I was thinking of replacing the functionality with CUPS--breaking the reports (ascii) up with Perl, converting them to postscript, and using LPR to send them to the appropriate printers. This works fine with the 5 printers I've tested it with, but does anyone foresee problems with using CUPS in this fashion with so many printers? The reports will not all print at once, maybe 10 at a time.

As far as I can determine, it should be workable, but I am wondering if there are limitations to CUPS that would make this unfeasible, or if there are any gotchas?

Thanks!

Dan




More information about the cups mailing list