Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:00:03 -0600 (CST) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, sfourman@gmail.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD cups printing server Message-ID: <201101200500.p0K503oX093451@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim4WR9et%2BGkoBztQbqs2K51HB1XFJCUw9wqwyGU@mail.gmail.com>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jan 19 21:14:59 2011
> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:39:01 -0600
> From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
> Cc:
> Subject: FreeBSD cups printing server
>
> Hello list,
>
> I have a freshly installed FreeBSD 8.2 print server using the latest cups
> from ports.
>
> I have a Brother 9440CN printer and a Virtual pdf printer installed with
> cups-pdf
>
> both work great...
>
> my problem is I want to create a pdf for everything I send to the brother
> printer (for archival purposes)
>
> can I add multiple printers to a single queue? or is there a script
> somewhere, that I could copy the cups generated postscript to the
> cups-pdf printer?
At least a couple of options:
(the *UGLY* one)
1) define a named pipe
2) tell CUPS that that pipe is the printer device
3) from the system start-up script, launch a script
that does the following in a loop:
uses tee(1) to read from the named pipe, and copy to a unique archive file
pipes stdout from tee(1) to the actual printer device
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