[cups.general] Logical printers

[Michael Sweet]

CUPS has no built-in notion of logical printers.  Typically you'll setup separate queues (classes can work for this) to provide this functionality for shared printers, otherwise you can use lpoptions to define "instances" of a printer that have different default options.

On Apr 13, 2010, at 11:21 AM, William wrote:

> How does CUPS handle the concept of Logical printers such as
> 
> *  Logical Printer       CR-LF  Form Feed   Banner
> Normal                   -      -              -
> Logical printer 1        X      -              -
> Logical printer 2        -      X              -
> Logical printer 3        X      X              -
> Logical printer 4        -      -              X
> Logical printer 5        X      -              X
> Logical printer 6        -      X              X
> Logical printer 7        X      X              X
> * Where    CR-LF: Converts "Line Feed" to "Carriage Return/Line Feed" pair.
>                   Form Feed: Append a Form Feed character to the print job.
>                   Banner: Print a banner page prior to the print job.
> 
> Is this handled by classes in CUPS, where one would define a class, and then add printers and options for those printers to that class..or, am I misunderstanding both of these concepts completely? Thank you in advance.
> 
> Will
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair