Print to FTB Server

[Helge Blischke]

Travis Waalkens wrote:

>> 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

I've done a Perl script as a backend to support using Fujitsu[Siemens]'s 
openFT file transfer utility. As this script could easily be modified to
support FTP, drop me an e-mail if you are interested in this script.

Helge