[cups.general] Passing information to cups printer.

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Jul 3 13:43 Geo P.C. wrote (excerpt):
> Please let me know while printing a document is it able to pass user
> information like Full Name, Email id, Phone number, etc to cups print
> server.
>
> If possible please update us how we can accomplish this.

What is provided by default is described in "man filter", e.g. see
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.5/man-filter.html

Additional options can be provided e.g. via the lp command like
# lp -d queue_name -o Option1=value1 -o Option2=value2 file_to_print
or alternatively
# lp -d queue_name -o "Option1=value1 Option2=value2" file_to_print
see
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.5/man-lp.html

The filters and the backend will get all options as argv[5].


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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