ood-ports-lbsd/print/cups-filters/pkg

$OpenBSD: README,v 1.9 2015/04/04 09:36:37 ajacoutot Exp $

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Bonjour broadcasts of shared, remote printers
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The cups-browsed(8) daemon can be used to browse Bonjour (mDNS)
broadcasts of remote printers and create/remove local raw queues
pointing to these printers. This requires the avahi-daemon(8) to be
running first. To start it at boot time, the rc.conf.local(8)
pkg_scripts line can be edited as follow:

pkg_scripts=[...] messagebus avahi_daemon cups_browsed [...]

lpd(8) using direct printing with foomatic-rip(1)
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The Foomatic framework supports direct printing which does not rely on
CUPS (nor any spooler) and can thus be used with lpd(8).

Complete documentation can be found at:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/nospoolerdocumentation

Foomatic configuration
----------------------
A specific PPD file has to be created for the printer. Refer to the
documentation that comes with the foomatic-db-engine package to learn
how to generate PPD files
(cf. ${LOCALBASE}/share/doc/pkg-readmes/foomatic-db-engine-*).

# mkdir -p ${SYSCONFDIR}/foomatic/direct
# foomatic-ppdfile -p 'Samsung-ML-2850D' -d 'Postscript' > ${SYSCONFDIR}/foomatic/direct/samsung-ml2850d.ppd

Alternatively, you can look under
${LOCALBASE}/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD
for existing PPD files matching your printer (in which case the PPD file
can be copied and/or gunzip'd under ${SYSCONFDIR}/foomatic/direct).

Input filter script
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Non-postscript files must be converted before being sent to
foomatic-rip(1). Several packages can be used for that, a2ps being the
most complete.
Note that a2ps(1) requires external helper tools for converting files.
They can be configured under ${SYSCONFDIR}/a2ps{,-site}.cfg. By default,
converting images requires the ImageMagick package.

Here's a sample converter script:

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#!/bin/sh

${LOCALBASE}/bin/a2ps -BRq --columns=1 -o - | \
${PREFIX}/bin/foomatic-rip -P samsung-ml2850d
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Additional options can be passed to foomatic-rip(1).
e.g.
- to print in duplex mode: -o duplex
- to set the page size to letter: -o pagesize=letter

Default options can be set by editing the PPD file.

To use the above script as an input filter for lpd(8), see the next
sections (make sure the script is executable).

lpd(8): USB printer printcap(5) example
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lp|samsung|Samsung-ML-2850D:\
:lp=/dev/ulpt0:\
:if=/path/to/script.sh:\
:sd=/var/spool/output:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:sh:

lpd(8): network printer printcap(5) example
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rp|samsung|Samsung-ML-2850D:\
:lp=9100@1.2.3.4:\
:if=/path/to/script.sh:\
:sd=/var/spool/output:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:sh:
(where 1.2.3.4 is the printer IP address and 9100 the printer stream port)

foomatic-rip(1) does *not* speak LPD (port 515).
If the printer does not support raw printing over port 9100, it must be
setup locally on a print server (see above for an example using USB)
then accessed over LPD by the clients (there is no need to setup any
print filter on the clients since it will run on the print server).