On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Craig Colton wrote:
On Thursday 02 February 2006 13:38, Ken Moffat wrote:
Maybe you just need a print manager? Something like XPP. It's small and not DE
dependent. There are others.
Interesting, but yet another layer between me and the printer - so far,
with cups I can print directly from firefox, or format plain text in
a2ps and pipe it to lpr, so I don't think it's for me.
If I'm wrong and you would just like to have "virtual" printers - one for each
commonly used set of printer options, I probably don't have much to say.
That's a pity ;)
The
Gimp will let you define printers like this. But I tried to get the KDE Print
Manager to do this the other day, and couldn't find an easy way. I've never
tried to do this directly to cups (scared).
Yeah, cups comes with copious documentation, but it doesn't go out of
its way to assist a simple home user - it's good at telling me how to
manage a printer farm, but doesn't seem good at explaining how to use
virtual printers.
And can I do anything to enforce a maximum of one of these
"printers" actually running at a time (i.e. all could be queueing jobs,
but it would be unfortunate if text and photos were printed onto the
same media).
I guess you could set the others offlline in cups (the spooler should still
take jobs unless told not to).
Well, the spooler certainly works when the printer is offline, but I'm
really looking for a way of enforcing a maximum of one virtual printer
being online at a time.
Ken
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