All,
In an attempt to save our company some money on paper and toner cartridges,
I am trying to set up a print queue that outputs to a text file instead of
paper.
Many of our users run these massive reports, anywhere from 50 up to 500
pages, to get some info from a customer's database. These print jobs are
generated on, and sent from Unix servers (HP-UX mostly) so I don't think the
Samba - print to PDF trick will work here.
What I've done so far is to set up a raw print queue that uses a file as the
destination, and when I send print jobs to it it appears to work, however
nothing shows up in the file, and a lpq -P {printer_name} shows nothing in
the queue.
I am using Red Hat 9.0, Cups with LPD support enabled. Here is my
printers.conf entry for the printer:
<Printer jcopord>
Info Created by redhat-config-printer 0.6.x
DeviceURI file:/data/PDF/Reports/jcopord.txt
Location
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>
Ideally I'd like to have it create a new file for every job, rather than
appending or overwriting the one single file.
I've done lots of googling, but I don't seem to be having much luck.
Thanks in advance, and more info is available upon request...
Robert Toole
Systems Engineer
USCO Logistics / Calgary
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
