Realtime Printing / cups.h

[Zubair Lutfullah]

Thank-you very much.

Can you please guide me in the right direction regarding continuous printing.

Do i use PCL to directly draw the plots manually? Or is there some better abstraction layer?

Can you please suggest some wiki/guide?

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> On Jul 11, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Zubair Lutfullah wrote:
>
> > Q1) I'm trying to install a printer driver manually as Ubuntu doesn't have it.
> > The make gives an error cannot find
> > cups/cups.h
> > And i searched manually as well. Cant find it in /usr/include/
> >
> > I'm pretty sure I'm missing some basic step. Please guide me.
>
> Install the cups developer package - libcups2-dev I think - and also make sure you have a C compiler installed, etc.
>
> > Q2) I can use gnuplot to make graphs in pieces.
> >    These segments of postscript files need to be perfectly aligned on the same page.
> >
> > Any idea as to how i should proceed?
> >
> > Main purpose: I'm trying to print a graph in real-time.
> > I use gnuplot to make a 1 second chunk of a plot. Then need to use cups
> > to send a job to the printer. During the time the printer is printing. Another one second chunk will be ready.
>
> You'd need to manually re-insert the paper. Most continuous graphing/logging/receipt solutions do not use CUPS, but instead talk directly to a printer so they can provide variable-length, immediate printing.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
>