[cups.general] Passing information to cups printer.

[Geo P.C.]

Dear Helge

Thank you very much.

I can able to pass additional strings to cups printer with the usage
of job billing filed in CUPS Windows Postscript driver.

Thanks & Regards
Geo P.C.
www.geopc.co.cc


On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at acm.org> wrote:
> Geo P.C. wrote:
>
>> Sorry I didn't mentioned the client system we are using windows. In
>> windows we are installing cups printer (Installing cups-pdf printer as
>> a network printer in  windows).
>>
>> So from windows machines while printing a document from windows
>> machine is it able to pass user information like Full Name, Email id,
>> Phone number, etc to cups print server.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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>
> As far as I know (but note that I only have some experience with Windows XP
> and earlier) passing job options beyond PPD choices requires a special GUI
> program.
> As a guideline how to develop such a beast you may look at
>
> http://svn.easysw.com/public/windows/trunk/
>
> Helge
>
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