[hpoj-devel] Re: CUPS printing on OfficeJet?

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Zot O'Connor wrote:
> I just got my T45xi working with the command line.  Mandrake 7.2 likes
> cups a bit more than lpr (as does a fair number of folks apparently).  I
> am new to cups.  Can I use the lpr driver in CUPS, or does the office
> jet driver work only with lpr?
> 
> Thanks, so far its worked great (in testing that is :)

Hi, Zot.  I'm CCing this to hpoj-devel, because somebody else might be able
to help you more than I can.  I've never used CUPS, so unfortunately I can't
give you a definitive answer.  If you can somehow trick CUPS into running a
command where the print job data is on standard input, then you should be
able to do something similar to what most people do with LPD.  There is a
new and improved version of PRINT-HOWTO which will go into 0.7 soon, but you
can get it now from CVS (or by browsing CVS on the web).

On the other hand, if CUPS can only print to a device file, then you might
be in for a bit of a challenge.  I recently came up with an idea that should
make printing setup much easier and more generic, and I was going to try to
post a prototype to hpoj-devel within the next week.  Basically it involves
writing a daemon that simulates a "/dev/XXX" file using a socket special
file and redirects print job data to the right place.  Stay tuned, and you
might want to subscribe to hpoj-devel if you aren't already.  :-)

David