[cups.general] regarding cups

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Sep 27 15:05:13 PDT 2007


Premjo wrote:
> Hi,
>    Is it possible to send instant commands to the printer and receive the reply by using the cupsBackChannelRead() and the results can be shown on the web (http://localhost:631) or on the right click property of the printers ?, please help me on this.

No, only drivers (which are run only when you send a print job) can
communicate with devices.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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