On May 17, 11:51 pm, Tauren Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to build a print server that receives jobs over the network and > can print them to an attached printer. We were thinking about utilizing > websockets to notify the print server that a job is ready, so node came to > mind. But it doesn't seem like node is the right tool for interfacing with > a printer. If anyone has ideas on how to do this, I'd love to hear them.
Maybe I misunderstand the need, but why not just use something like CUPS? If you need to have programmatic access to it, they at least have an HTTP interface. Otherwise in the worst case you'd just need to write some kind of binding to the CUPS API. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
