[cups] Displaying job sender name on printer

James Cloos cloos at jhcloos.com
Sun Sep 7 07:20:06 PDT 2014


>>>>> "FD" == Fabrice Delente <delentef at gmail.com> writes:

FD> I have found these comments in the PPD file for the printer:
FD> *% If the dscInfo dictionary is not set using the printer driver, the
FD> *% userlogin and job name are set to "CUPS User" and "CUPS Application"
FD> *% respectively. If the dscinfo dictionary is set, document name and
FD> *% user name are set as per the CUPS login name and Document name.

FD> Is there a way to set this dscInfo dictionary on the command line,
FD> with lpoptions or a PS file injected into CUPS (but this, I don't know
FD> how yet :^) ?

What does:

  :; lpoptions -d $PRINTER -l

report (replacing $PRINTER with the queue name)?

-JimC
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