[cups.general] Virtual Printer?

Jerome Alet alet at librelogiciel.com
Thu Jan 3 01:53:17 PST 2008


On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 05:58:53PM -0800, Nick wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to set up a CUPS "virtual printer" that I can print to 
> and have some sort of script run to determine which physical printer 
> to send the job to. For example, the script could do some check and 
> send the job to parallel:/dev/lp1 if some criteria is met and 
> parallel:/dev/lp2 if it is not met. Can someone help me out in 
> figuring out how to set up CUPS to use a script to determine which 
> physical printer to send a job to? Thanks, 

Tea4CUPS, available from www.pykota.com, is exactly what you are
looking for, and more.

bye

Jerome Alet





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