<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>We don't have a printer, per se. Instead we want our program to receive the bitmap/raster image, and send that over the net to our process running somewhere else, where it may print it or do something else with it.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>We're doing this on the mac for now, but we may want it on other cups-supported platforms later.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I could use some help getting going with this, as there's a lot to learn. <b>If someone could simply outline the steps involved, it would be a great help.</b></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>From what I've read thus far, my impression is that I have to make a ppd file for our printer, which would specify our filter. There's a lot that I don't understand even in that summary.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I also have one question: Can a filter become the end-of-the-line, so that the backend is not invoked? Do I do this by simply outputting nothing? Is there a standard way of supporting a pseudo-printer?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>--Daniel</div></body></html>