[cups.general] Printer configuration with "Dept. ID"

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> writes:

> Helge,
>
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 5:05 AM, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at acm.org> wrote:
>> ...
>> AFAIK, cups currently does not support "secure printing" as you descibed. If 
>> you really cannot afford to disable this for Linux printing, drop me an e-
>> mail for a description of how to get the information to mimik secure 
>> printing for at least a limited number of different "users" on Linux (h dot 
>> blischke at acm dot org).
>
> To be clear, CUPS *does* support secure/PIN printing with IPP, just not with arbitrary printer-specific solutions that require a special driver or PPD.
>
> Depending on how this is implemented, you *may* be able to just add an option to the PPD file to inject the PostScript or PJL commands.  Many office machine PPDs do this already, in fact.

Raymond, I've done this for our office Fuji Xerox AppeosPort-III C4405,
but creating a filter that injects the PJL commands (requires correct
combination of a few different fields like user name, computer name, for
example, and this really is arbitrarily setup so you need to analyse the
PJL printjobs).
In my filter, I am missing some things still, so printing multiple
copies, for example, does not work.
-- 
Gernot Hassenpflug