[cups.general] Physical destination from class print job

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Oct 28 20:38:35 PDT 2009


You can do an IPP request to look for the job-actual-printer-uri  
attribute in each job.

On Oct 28, 2009, at 7:44 PM, will nowak wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In a lab environment we have two printers (printera and printerb) in  
> a print class "lab". We would like to have a heads-up display by the  
> printers showing where a user could expect their job to come out,  
> but there does not seem to be a way in the CUPS API to query for  
> that information. Jobs entered into the "lab" queue never gain any  
> tagging based on their physical destination, with the exception of  
> the CUPS RSS feed. After a job has been completed, the RSS feed will  
> get a message indicating that job name foo was completed on  
> printera, but printera never gets job foo in its completed print  
> queue.
>
> Is there a way to get this kind of information from the server, or  
> is it a pending feature request?
>
> Thank You in Advance,
> -Will
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