[cups.general] Delaying print jobs.

[Michael R Sweet]

Adam Penny wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:11:58PM -0800, Adam Penny wrote:
>>> Sorry, I appreciate I'm probably entering into the territory of
>>> stupid questions, but could you point me in the right direction as
>>> to finding out how to write an IPP wrapper?
>> You could download Tea4CUPS from http://www.pykota.com
>>
>> Ensure your wakeup script works from outside the printing
>> environment, then install Tea4CUPS, make your printer be managed by
>> it, and define one of its 'prehook' directives to launch your script
>> automatically before sending the print job's datas to the real
>> backend.
>>
>> Probably a 5 minutes job.
>>
>> hth
>>
>> Jerome Alet
>>
> Nearly there, I think, but I think I may be making a mistake with the printer URL:
> Adding as a normal printer it is:
> mdns://Brother%20HL-1650_1670N%20series%20%40%20PennyG5._ipp._tcp.local
> but if I put tea4cups:mdns://Brother..... the print queue pauses and if I try and unpause it it just tells me not possible. Does tea4cups have a problem with Bonjour or am I doing something silly?

You need to change the permissions of tea4cups to 0700, since the
mdns backend has to run as root.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer