[ale] Port printing and saving the output as a file

[Jeff Hubbs]

beach wrote:

>I have a proprietary hospital mainframe system that will only allow me to 
>assign IP based printers (IP address and port).   I would like to be able to 
>configure my Mandrake 8.1 server to accept print jobs from this mainframe but 
>not to output to a printer, instead I would like the print job to be saved as 
>a file so I can manipulate them.   Can LPD or CUPS be configured to accept 
>print jobs on a port?   Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Beach
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If the mainframe is actually sending out LPR jobs, then, Linux lpd 
already does accept print jobs and ought to be able to take them.  Then, 
it becomes a matter of having the lpr (CUPS, LPRng, etc.) system on the 
"catching" end dump PS to a file instead of a print device.  Sounds like 
a cool project!

- Jeff



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