Where do I ask for a new printer utility?

[Asheville Joe]

Found documentation on kprinter.  haven't had time to read it yet.

Joe

Asheville Joe wrote:

> Vlok, thanks for the great leads.  I found a utility qtcups which has 
> been superceded by kprinter.  Running either with --help (or 
> --help-all with kprinter) gives a little information, but I haven't 
> found any more documentation on them.  I tried to get kprinter to 
> work, but could not figure out how to get the <Page set> option (even 
> or odd) or the Reverse option to be set from the command line.  (They 
> are in the gui just fine.)  The command does have a --nodialog option, 
> so if I could figure out how to set the other two options, I'd be just 
> about there!  All I'd have to do is call it once with odd, reverse, 
> nodialog and then again with even (and let the dialog pop up so I 
> could wait for first print to finish).
>
> Questions:  Is there any better documentation of these commands 
> (especially usage examples) anywhere (or do I have to try to puzzle 
> out the source code)?  Does anyone know how to talk to it from the 
> command line?
>
> The other article mentions a nifty command called lpspr that 
> apparently does exactly what I want and some other nifty things as 
> well.  However, a search on Freshmeat, Sourceforge, and Google found 
> nothing but that same article - at least in English.
>
> Question: Where (if anywhere) does lpspr live (maybe on commercial 
> Unix only?) and how do I get it?
>
> Joe
>
> vlok stone wrote:
>
>> Since you're using Mandrake try here  
>> http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups10.html#noduplextip
>> or http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_computing/buns/unix_printing.html
>>
>>
>> --- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi.  I could really use a utility that does
>>> essentially what xpp does, but is callable from a script such as 
>>> bash.  As far
>>> as I know, one does not exist and after taking a look at the 26 
>>> pages of
>>> code behind xpp, I was quickly convinced that I wasn't going to write
>>> it myself!
>>>
>>> Is there somewhere appropriate where I could post a
>>> request for what I want?
>>>
>>> All I actually want to do is emulate double sided
>>> printing on my printer the way Windoze does.  I can do it now 
>>> manually with
>>> xpp, but it's very cumbersome and error prone.  It seems to me that a
>>> duplex printing emulator is something a large number of users would
>>> appreciate having.  It is definitely a desktop application as 
>>> opposed to
>>> a server application, but Linux on the desktop is an
>>> objective for many in the open software community.
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell, all it requires (aside from
>>> the normal hassle of parsing command line parameters and error 
>>> checking)
>>> is a bunch of calls to CUPS.  That's a bit more than I can figure 
>>> out at
>>> this point, but for someone who knows what they're doing, it's
>>> conceptually simple.
>>>
>>> In fact, if I could just fake console input to xpp,
>>> it would be ugly, but it would work as long as I could wait for the
>>> first xpp to finish (and for me to flip the paper around) before 
>>> running
>>> the second xpp to print the other sides.  Then, the only outstanding
>>> issue would be figuring out if there was an odd number of total
>>> pages so I could print a blank page at the end to eject the last sheet.
>>>
>>> Arer there any keyboard/mouse "macro" automation
>>> tools that could do this?  I know they have existed as far back as CP/M
>>> and MSDOS and have even seen (but not used) some for Windoze.  Software
>>> testers like these things so thay can do the same sequence of events
>>> over and over until they get it right.
>>>
>>> I put a message on linuxprinting.org and got several
>>> helpful responses from Till Kamppeter (the author of xpp), but no help
>>> with emulating.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>>
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