[Gllug] How to process print jobs locally?

[- Tethys]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Dan Kolb <gllug at eco.li> wrote:

>> I was wondering if there was any way to configure cups on the linux clients
>> to process the job before passing it to the server?  I haven't found
>> anything useful by googling.
>
> Good luck with that. I've been trying to find a way of doing this (on and off)
> for about 6 years now.

This should be possible, although I've never done it myself. Set up
a raw printer on the server, and have the local CUPS RIP to whatever
format the printer requires and then send the out to the raw printer
on the server. I don't know if Kurt Pfeifle's UKUUG paper from a few
years back is available online, but from memory, that covered things
like this. In particular, there was a very useful CUPS architecture
diagram in it that makes it very easy to see what you need to where.

Tet

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