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--- articles:cupsprinting [2009/02/11 12:28] – timallen
+++ articles:cupsprinting [2010/02/08 08:54] (current) – timallen
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 Using Samba, the CUPS Windows Postscript driver allows for "easy" downloading of a single postscript driver to Windows machines from the Samba CUPS-enabled server, irrespective of the actual printer.
-Obtain the tarball from the CUPS website, extract and build. ''libcupsys2-dev'' is needed for the make install, smbclient is needed by cupsaddsmb, so :
+Obtain the tarball from the CUPS website, extract and build. ''libcupsys2-dev'' is needed for the make install, smbclient is needed by cupsaddsmb, so:
   aptitude install libcupsys2-dev smbclient
   cd /tmp
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 ===== Putting It All Together =====
 ==== Sambafax ====
-Sambafax uses Hylafax to send a document to a recipient, based on a fax number embedded in a Postscript document. Sambafax was originally written by Ignace Suy. {{articles:sambafax.txt|This modified version}} works under CUPS, using the CUPS Postscript drivers described above. It also uses pstotext, which does a better job of extracting the fax number from the Postscript file, as well as handling fax numbers which may be split over a number of lines.
+Sambafax uses Hylafax to send a document to a recipient, based on a fax number embedded in a Postscript document. Sambafax was originally written by Ignace Suy. The modified version below works under CUPS, using the CUPS Postscript drivers described above. It also uses pstotext, which does a better job of extracting the fax number from the Postscript file, as well as handling fax numbers which may be split over a number of lines.
+<file>
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Faxing with HylaFax through a faxprinter
+# Heavily modified from original version. Supports CUPS and LPR
+#
+# $Id: sambafax,v 1.9 2009-06-30 08:43:41 tda Exp $
+# Printer spool type (LPR or CUPS)
+PRINTSYSTEM="CUPS"
+# Constants
+SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
+# Make up a temporary file using PID
+FAXFILE=/tmp/sambafax.$$
+# Fax number format
+# Match FAX : '01234 567890'
+# Deals with newlines in string and 0xad as hyphen
+PARSE="
+b testfirst
+: appendnext
+N
+y/FAX\n\xad\xa3/fax - /
+: testfirst
+s/.*fax *: *'\([0-9 ][0-9 ,-]*[0-9 ]\)'.*/\1/
+T appendnext
+s/[ -]//g
+p
+q
+"
+# Retrieve the username and hostname from the parameters
+if [ $PRINTSYSTEM = "LPR" ]; then
+  while :
+  do
+    case "$1" in
+        -n) Username="$2"
+            shift ; shift
+            ;;
+        -h) Hostname="$2"
+            shift ; shift
+            ;;
+        -*) shift
+            ;;
+         *) break
+    esac
+  done
+  cat >${FAXFILE}
+else
+# CUPS
+  Username="$2"
+  cat "$6" >${FAXFILE}
+fi
+# If the samba user is anonymous then send mails to the postmaster
+if [ "${Username}" = "nobody" ]; then
+  MailTo="postmaster@fleet.dcallen.co.uk"
+else
+  MailTo="${Username}@fleet.dcallen.co.uk"
+fi
+# Retrieve the faxnumber from the printfile
+FAXNUM=`pstotext ${FAXFILE} | sed -n "${PARSE}"`
+# If faxnumber is found fax the tempfile
+# We do not check the validity of the faxnumber, let sendfax do this...
+if [ "${FAXNUM}" = "" ]; then
+  (echo "To: ${MailTo}"
+   echo "From: The HylaFAX Samba print service <fax>"
+   echo "Subject: Your facsimile request failed"
+   echo ""
+   echo -n "The faxnumber is not recognized in your fax of "
+   echo -n `date`
+   echo "."
+   echo "The faxnumber is recognised by this text:"
+   echo ""
+   echo "   Fax: 'd,ddd-dd ddddd'"
+   echo ""
+   echo "Only spaces, ',' or '-' characters are allowed between the digits."
+   echo ""
+   echo "Please correct and retry."
+  ) | 2>&1 $SENDMAIL -ffax -oi ${MailTo}
+else
+  sendfax -n -D -m -f ${MailTo} -d ${FAXNUM} ${FAXFILE}
+fi
+# Remove the temp file
+# rm -f ${FAXFILE}
+# End of file
+</file>
 First, copy the sambafax script to ''/usr/lib/cups/backend'', then
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   BrowseAllow @LOCAL
   BrowsePoll server.domain.com
+===== Printing Text Files =====
+Print options can be specified on the ''lpr'' command line. e.g.
+  lpr -pLaserjet-6P -o cpi=11.5 -o lpi=6 -o page-top=33 [file]
+Alternatively, printer options can be set by the ''lpoptions'' command:
+  lpoptions -pLaserjet-6P -o cpi=11.5 -o lpi=6 -o page-top=33
+==== Printer Instances ====
+Multiple options set can be set up using printer "instances", where each instance of a single printer can have a different set of options.
+To set a printer instance, use:
+  lpoptions -pLaserjet-6P/instance1 -o cpi=11.5 -o lpi=6 -o page-top=33
+To delete an instance:
+  lpoptions -xLaserjet-6P/instance1
+Printer instances set by root are global.
+Note that printer instances are not presented on the CUPS web interface.
+=== Printing Text Files From Windows Command Line ===
+There are a number of obstacles to printing with specific option sets through Samba with CUPS:
+  - Samba appears to not support printer instances via the CUPS API. They simply do not appear as listed printers. Furthermore, attempts to specifically list a printer instance also do not work.
+  - Any printer options set with ''lpoptions'' (see above) are ignored.
+  - It may be possible to define a special printer, printing = sysv, and define a specific ''lp'' print command, but this would need a difference printer defined for each option set. Also, all the other print commands then also need defining in this section of ''smb.conf''.
+One solution is to give up on Samba and simply pipe the file to ''lpr'' on the print server using Cygwin ''ssh'' (or any other Windows ''ssh'' client). e.g.
+  type file | ssh cupsserver lpr -pLaserjet-6P -o cpi=11.5 -o lpi=6 -o page-top=33