[cups.general] Can the rasterisation file be logged for scrutiny when printing

[alet at librelogiciel.com]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 05:46:43AM -0700, handy wrote:
>
> I am familiar with computing and industrial electronics and have spent
> considerable time figuring out how CUPS works for mainly single users,
> since I changed to use Linux in the form of PCLinuxOS.
>
> When I have time to work on the PCLinuxOS forum I try to help with
> printing problems. One thing that has me beaten, how can I record or log
> what is sent to the actual printer xyz??  That is:
>
> How can I log the actual rasterisation?
>
> or is there a temporary file that I could intercept that holds that data?

You could install Tea4CUPS
(http://www.pykota.com/software/tea4cups/download) and make your printer
managed by Tea4CUPS (by prepending tea4cups:// to its DeviceURI).

Then in tea4cups.conf set "keepfiles: yes"

Done.

bye

--
Jerome Alet