On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Lee Jenkins wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is quite a bit OT since the only thing related to Lazarus is that I will
> use to write the software.
>
> One of my company's main products does a lot of prep notifications to various
> printers on the network. For a single order (sale), prep instructions can be
> sent to up to 6 different printers.
>
> One of the things that has always been a problem with doing this kind of
> critical printing in windows has been the lack of status or way of querying
> printers (many are on print servers). I remember there was a way to send a
> fake print job and monitor using the Win32 API, but I had difficulty getting
> reliable printer status and it doesn't seem to work very well.
>
> Is this kind of printer monitoring possible in Linux? We are thinking about
> putting together a kind of Linux Appliance to do this and move the printing
> portion away from Windows, assuming printer status is obtainable on Linux like
> outlined above.
You should use CUPS for this; All status functionality available to CUPS
should be available to you. You can't get it more accurate than that.
Michael.
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