Print to FTB Server
Travis Waalkens
travis at brownies.com
Thu May 7 08:30:22 PDT 2009
> On May 6, 2009, at 18:31 , Travis Waalkens wrote:
> > Is it possible to configure a printer like this?
> > Any suggestion is appreciated.
>
>
> Not out of the box. Make sure you have an FTP client (or curl)
> installed, then write a custom backend script which does the upload.
> Then define a raw print queue using your custom backend.
>
> I'm not finding any convenient examples of backend scripts, but http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/api-filter.html
> describes the arguments passed to a backend, you can collect the
> data file to be printed and then submit with ftp or curl.
>
> --
> brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
> system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
>
Thanks for the response Brandon.
My searches turned up empty handed as well.
Thanks for the link, I guess I better get to work.
Travis
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