Firstly, thanks for your interest....
Yes... I did post on that 'other' forum... hoping that I might widen my net for potential solutions. AND You are also right by premempting one of my few possible objections with CUPS is that it can ACTUALLY handle status and control messages STATUS back to the host system.
I also need to know that CUPS can redirect spooled data to a file and not manipulate the spool file in any way. It also needs to send back an ACKnowledgement to the host that the job has been successfully completed and update STATUS.
Anyone that can give me an outline of how CUPS can do this will have successfully answered my original question.
OR
Anyone that can provide information on any alternative programs that can do this will have answered my original question.
Cheers
kd
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by: arnoldPosted on 2008-04-29 at 06:15:39ID: 21461877
An option could be to setup a unix/linux box with CUPs/LPadmin that would end up using the jetdirect IP. /forum/lin ux-network ing/53105- how- make-c ups-jetdir ect-appsoc ket-print- server.htm l ntation.ph p/network. html mentation/ suse91/sus elinux- adm inguide/ht ml/ch05s05 .html
http://www.linuxforums.org
http://www.cups.org/docume
http://www.novell.com/docu
Noticed you saw and posted on the above article. The host application will send the print job to CUPS. My guess is your concern is in the event the printer is out of paper or gets jams, whether the error from printer to cups will be relayed to the end user.