[cups.general] Realtime Printing / cups.h

[Michael Sweet]

I'm afraid I have no specific guidance for you - the manufacturer of the printer is your first source of information on the command set used. Ghostscript can probably be used to produce a PBM file that you can use to send raster data for each strip...

On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Zubair Lutfullah wrote:

> 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?
> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
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