OT: CUPS and Print Drivers

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008, Doug Luurs wrote:
>This is a tad off topic .. No being real familiar with CUPS ..
> 
>On SCO, we have a printer called FAX1, and it calls a script down in
>/usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces and
>"PRINTS" the report to the fax machine.
> 
>Does anyone know if CUPS has a similar feature, that I can write a script
>that it calls ?

Recent versions of CUPS support the standard SYSV printer
commands including lpadmin, enable, disable, etc.

Before you can use direct devices (e.g. /dev/lp0), you will have
to add a line to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, and restart CUPS.

FileDevice Yes

Something like this will create a printer using a standard SYSV
printer interface script under /etc/cups/interfaces (this
directory has wrong owner on some versions of SuSE).

	lpadmin -pfaxprn -v /dev/ttyS0 -i path_to_interface

You will then have to run ``accept'' and ``enable'' (I think
there's an option to lpadmin that will do this automatically but
I never remember to look it up).

Bill
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