[cups.development] CUPS, CUPSLite and towards and embedded-size subset

[Michael Sweet]

Dave,

On Aug 26, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Dave Purdy <david.c.purdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dave,
>> 
>> Look at the ippserver source here:
>> 
>>   http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/trunk/test
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 26, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Dave Purdy <david.c.purdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
> 
> Thank you, Michael.
> 
> Off hand, do you know if this would have enough capabilities to receive a printjob from an iOS device, do the right pdf/ghostscript processing and send it to an attached USB printer?

You'll need to do the plumbing for that - all the server currently does is collect the print job file and pretend to "process" it...  Plug your own processing code in to make it do something different.

> My thought is to do a tiny embedded version of "AirPrint Capability Using Linux, Avahi, CUPS and Python"  ... as shown here - http://www.finnie.org/2010/11/13/airprint-and-linux/

I really can't speak to that.

> I have it working great in Debian, but I'm shooting for a tiny image - around 120MB so that I can squeeze it down to about 28MB in a UBI image.

That shouldn't be a problem.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair