Printing PDF files to network printers

Elly K andrewdsj at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 25 08:53:56 PDT 2010


> Elly K wrote:
>
> > Hi list, I have a bunch of PDF files being written to a common folder by
> > different applications.  The users needs each of these files to be printed
> > to specific printers on the network.
> >
> > I am sure CUPS can print each of these files to specific printers on the
> > network.  But how would CUPS know which PDF file needs to go to which
> > printer?  Is there a way to do that?  Any ideas, pointers would be greatly
> > appreciated... Thanks!
>
> Surely it is possible to set up afacility that prints your PDFs to different
> printers according to certain properties of the respective PDFs. But this is
> a task highly special to your needs (may be it is necessary to read out
> parts of the PDFs to determine the destination printer), so I think it is a
> task that is far beyond "public domain help" and rather subject to an
> individual contract for a fee.
>
> Helge
>

Thanks Helge.  I appreciate your feedback!




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