[cups.general] print to fax with CUPS ?
Renaud (Ron) Olgiati
renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org
Thu Oct 18 14:25:02 PDT 2012
On Thursday 18 Oct 2012 09:08 my mailbox was graced by a message from Helge
Blischke who wrote:
> > I run Mageia 1 Linux, with CUPS 1.4.6
> > I have been looking into adding a "Print to fax" entry in my printing
> > system, using fax and efax.
> > The man page for efax tells me how to create the virtual printer by
> > adding a line in /etc/printcap.
> > But the first lines in printcap read:
> > # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
> > # /etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file
> > # will be lost.
> > How do I get around this, and configure the virtual printer in CUPS ? ?
> Try something like
> lpadmin -p efax -L machine -D fax -E -v efax:/dev/ttyXX -m efax.ppd
Many thanks, will try it as soon as the modem arrives in the post.
Cheers,
Ron.
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