Re: cups and papd


Subject: Re: cups and papd
From: Christian Tardif (christian.tardif@videotron.ca)
Date: Thu Nov 23 2000 - 22:18:43 EST


At 22:28 22-11-2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Use the option in papd.conf to pipe the output to a program instead of
>letting papd mess in your spool directories (which it obviously can't do
>in this case).
>
>I'm not familiar with cups at all, but I assume it has some unix
>command-line utilities for printing. Here is an example papd.conf for
>standard lpd printing through a pipe:
>
>laserjet:
> :pr=|/usr/bin/lpr -Plaserjet:
>
>Maybe this will help...

It works !!! In fact, CUPS is mainly used for defining printers, and
printing is done in some way through lpr. But papd doesn't seem to deal
with that directly. But with the intervention of lpr, everything is now
working correctly.

Many thanks !



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