Re: [SL] Printing to multiple printers

[Roy P <or...@sh...>]

Hello Jeff...
Here is an old post from the list:

=2D---------
This is ugly but it works, create 2 cups printers, create a samba=20
printer that prints to both of them, create a cups printer that prints=20
to the samba printer.
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0-->Cups Printer 1
Cups printer 3 -> samba printer /
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0\--> Cups Printer 2


The =A0samba printer uses
print command =A0=3D =A0lpr -PPrinter1 %s/%f && lpr -P printer2 %s/%f

This is roughly how it goes, I made it work on another system years ago,=20
you will have to sort the details.

Or you could do a trick with the pipe to printer in sql-ledger.conf

=2D--------------------

I didn't get around to try this myself....
Hope this helps.
Roy




On Monday 15 January 2007 21:11, Jeff Roberts wrote:
> Hello All
>
> When I print an invoice I would like one copy to come out of my inkjet
> in full colour for the customer and two copies should come out of my
> laser for filing. Currently I find myself having to print to the inkjet
> then back up one page, select laser, change the amount to two and print
> again. I know this is not a lot of work but If I print 1000 invoices
> this year it's going to drive me nuts.
>
> I've tried playing around with the .conf file to create a printer called
> "invoice" with commands to do this without any luck. Does anyone know
> the syntax to put two print commands together so they execute one after
> another?
>
> I've tried:
>
> Invoice   =3D>   'lp -d InkJet, lp -d Simplex -n 2',
> Invoice   =3D>   'lp -d InkJet; lp -d Simplex -n 2',
> Invoice   =3D>   'lp -d InkJet: lp -d Simplex -n 2',
> Invoice   =3D>   lp -d InkJet and lp -d Simplex -n 2'.
> Invoice   =3D>   lp -d InkJet & lp -d Simplex -n 2',
> Invoice   =3D>   lp -d InkJet -d Simplex -n 2',
>
> and maybe a couple of others, no luck so far.
>
> Jeff Roberts
>
>
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