[cups.general] png printer

[Michael R Sweet]

Daniel Birns wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to cups.
> 
> We have a kind of pseudo-network printer, and we're using png as a 
> format, because it's small and faster over the network.
> 
> So as far as cups is concerned, our printer takes a png format.  I see 
> that there are converters to png, but what about converts TO png for a 
> "png-printer"?  Is there such a filter?

There isn't a standard filter for that, but it would be trivial to
write one that read CUPS raster data and wrote PNG files using the
libpng library.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer