Is there a 'print job name' flag?

Paul paul.conklin at cerner.com
Wed May 25 14:20:53 PDT 2011


If you can find any doc on the printer on how it wants the format, you can make a custom filter to echo it out to the printer.  all of that info is in the $0-$6 variables

> Hi there,
>
> Ive had a little look at the documentation and I dont think I can find one, but just incase:
>
> Many laser printer's contain an internal log of jobs printed. When using CUPS (on Solaris10) the jobs arrive at the printer and get logged, but there is no username or 'job title' information.
>
> Is there any command line flags I can use to forward a 'job title' to the printer along with the job itself... All the job's are postscript or raw text.
>
> Thanks
> Hugo





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