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[SL] Printing to multiple printers

[Jeff R. <je...@jr...>]

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   =>   'lp -d InkJet, lp -d Simplex -n 2',
Invoice   =>   'lp -d InkJet; lp -d Simplex -n 2',
Invoice   =>   'lp -d InkJet: lp -d Simplex -n 2',
Invoice   =>   lp -d InkJet and lp -d Simplex -n 2'.
Invoice   =>   lp -d InkJet & lp -d Simplex -n 2',
Invoice   =>   lp -d InkJet -d Simplex -n 2',

and maybe a couple of others, no luck so far.

Jeff Roberts

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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Re: [SL] Printing to multiple printers

[Ashley J G. <sql...@pu...>]

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 13:11, 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.

Hi Jeff,
	You could create a shell script that reads from standard input (possibly 
putting it into a temporary file) then sends that data to two or more calls 
to lp.

We run a thermal docket printer at our shop and I use a script that prepends 
control codes to print our logo, then send the print job, then sends more 
data to add newlines and fire the cashdrawer. I later modified the script to 
also keep logs of every docket, so now I have an automatic audit trail of 
every printed POS docket which has come in handy a number of times for 
balancing the till or finding other discrepancies.

Essentially, all you'd need to do in your script is:

==============================
#!/bin/sh
#define a temporary file
JOB=/tmp/sl-invprint.ps

# capture the job into the temp file
cat - > $JOB

# Now print it however you like, however many times you like
lp -d InkJet < $JOB
lp -d Simplex -n 2 < $JOB

# if you like, archive the print file:
cat $JOB > /var/log/invoices/invoicelog-`date +%Y-$m-%d-%H%M.%S`.ps

==============================

Then you just put the name of the script into the printer definition in 
sql-ledger.conf and away you go (eg, if you save that script 
as /usr/local/bin/invoiceprint then you just define your printer as 
'Invoice Printsystem' => 'invoiceprint').

Doing this gives you a great deal of control over how you process printjobs - 
eg you could use a script that parsed the invoice for fax numbers and faxed a 
copy of the invoice to the client, or whatever else "behind the scenes" stuff 
you wanted to do.

-- 
Regards,
	Ashley J Gittins
	web: 	http://www.purple.dropbear.id.au
	jabber: agi...@pu...

Re: [SL] Printing to multiple printers

[Jeff R. <Jef...@te...>]

Thanks Ashley

That seems to have solved it, I did have to add a ctl-D (EOF) to the end 
of invoice.tex to terminate cat but now it prints all the right copies 
from all the right printers.

Jeff

Ashley J Gittins wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 13:11, 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.
>>     
>
> Hi Jeff,
> 	You could create a shell script that reads from standard input (possibly 
> putting it into a temporary file) then sends that data to two or more calls 
> to lp.
>
> We run a thermal docket printer at our shop and I use a script that prepends 
> control codes to print our logo, then send the print job, then sends more 
> data to add newlines and fire the cashdrawer. I later modified the script to 
> also keep logs of every docket, so now I have an automatic audit trail of 
> every printed POS docket which has come in handy a number of times for 
> balancing the till or finding other discrepancies.
>
> Essentially, all you'd need to do in your script is:
>
> ==============================
> #!/bin/sh
> #define a temporary file
> JOB=/tmp/sl-invprint.ps
>
> # capture the job into the temp file
> cat - > $JOB
>
> # Now print it however you like, however many times you like
> lp -d InkJet < $JOB
> lp -d Simplex -n 2 < $JOB
>
> # if you like, archive the print file:
> cat $JOB > /var/log/invoices/invoicelog-`date +%Y-$m-%d-%H%M.%S`.ps
>
> ==============================
>
> Then you just put the name of the script into the printer definition in 
> sql-ledger.conf and away you go (eg, if you save that script 
> as /usr/local/bin/invoiceprint then you just define your printer as 
> 'Invoice Printsystem' => 'invoiceprint').
>
> Doing this gives you a great deal of control over how you process printjobs - 
> eg you could use a script that parsed the invoice for fax numbers and faxed a 
> copy of the invoice to the client, or whatever else "behind the scenes" stuff 
> you wanted to do.
>
>