Re: CUPS redirecting

Paul W. Elsinghorst wrote:
Hi guys,


does someone know if there is a way to redirect pages to another printer
depending on color content?

So, lets say we have a color and a bw-printer. Some people tend to print
non-colored (bw) stuff on the color printer which finally runs out of
contrast toner. Could I somehow tell CUPS to filter print jobs for
colored content and redirect bw-pages to the bw-printer?


Paul

Probably not at the CUPS level, but I have indeed written filters to do things like that.

What you need to do is make a new queue and specify some basic script stub as a filter..it used to be that a filter was something that got the print stream and spa it to stdout..now it doesn't have to do that..it can dump it in a file, call (exec) another print q and exit with 'done'

Of course the user level monitoring of print queues gets a tad messy..

Finding the filter that CUPS or LPADMIN installs is a game in itself.

Another way would be to ceate a newlp() command, and use that to do the vectoring.


Its good fun programming.
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