On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:13 PM, mscdex <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Is there a cups server for windows? If there is then that may be an option. But I thought it was only a client driver. >From the CUPS website: The CUPS Driver for Windows downloads currently only includes 32-bit > Windows drivers and must be combined with the Microsoft PostScript driver > as described on the cupsaddsmb(8) man page. 64-bit Windows drivers are now > available in the Subversion repository and will eventually become part of > an updated CUPS Driver for Windows download. > Note: > Foomatic-based drivers do not work with Windows clients. > > -- > 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 > -- 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
