One print job to multiple printers

[Rolands]

Thank you, I'll check it out, seems like that's what I need. Great!


> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 08:22:23AM -0700, Rolands wrote:
> > Hi, I need to set up printing environment, where one print job is
> > sent to multiple printers. Is it possible with Cups and Samba?
>
> To the best of my knowledge it's not possible with CUPS.
>
> You could specify the printing command in your smb.conf to be a script
> of your own which reroute the job to multiple printers at once, but
> you'd lose the ability for Samba to really dialog with CUPS.
>
> The solution I'd recommend is to use something like Tea4CUPS,
> available from http://www.pykota.com and which is entirely
> transparent. It allows you to capture the print job en route to the
> (optional) physical printer and do whatever you want with it (like
> reroute it to printers 1, 2 and 4 but only if job was sent from
> 192.168.34.23, for example).
>
> You only need to modify your printers.conf so that your print queue is
> managed with Tea4CUPS, and then define one or more scripts of your own
> to be launched when the job reaches this print queue. Tea4CUPS will
> then launch your scripts while making available to them most
> job-related informations through environment variables.
>
> bye
>
> Jerome Alet
>