Redirecting print job files for specific printers

[Helge Blischke]

Joshua wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a legacy program that my company is moving from an old HP-UX server
> to a new Ubuntu Linux server. In this program when a user prints something
> it create the print job spooler file to a directory for that printer. The
> program also has the ability to copy print job files for a specific
> printer by going into the printers spooler folder and copying the files.
> Can this be done in CUPS? Right now all print spooler files go to
> /var/spool/cups. I would like, when a user prints to a specific printer
> the spooler file would go to it directory; example
> /var/spool/cups/MN_HP_2055_IT
> 
> Any help would be great, I've been looking for a solution to this problem
> for a week now.

Though I do not really know what that is good for, the use of one of the 
print to file backends for CUPS, like prtofile, might help you with this 
issue.
See the links page at www.cups.org for more details.

Helge