[ale] Printer question

[Joe Steele]

Now it hits me what "CY- documents" are.  I presumed they were 
created by some "CY-" software and didn't give it a second 
thought. :)

Your setup is becoming clearer to me.  At least part of your 
printing is from windows boxes using a windows PCL driver.  The 
output is sent to a Linux box which passes it directly to the 
printer.  

This means you are looking for some way of prefixing a header 
to the PCL which generates a time stamp on every sheet, which 
means your looking for someone with knowledge of PCL (i.e., not me).

If you don't succeed in finding a PCL solution, the postscript 
solution I suggested could be made to work by using a postscript 
printer driver on the windows boxes and processing the output on 
the Linux box.

--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From:	Matthew Brown [SMTP:matthew.brown at cordata.net]
Sent:	Friday, April 27, 2001 9:17 AM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	RE: [ale] Printer question

Actually I would like to get a timestamp on the PowerPoints, spreasheets,
Word docs, etc.  I'd like to print them this way and hang onto them for
backup documentation as to when I printed something.


Matthew Brown
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Bob
To: ale at ale.org
Kruger
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 6:21 PM
To: Matthew Brown; ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Printer question




Matthew Brown wrote:

> Sorry.  The workstatins are varied, as are the programs.  The Linux box is
> currently simply queueing the raw print files and sending them along.  I
> thought i may be able to set up a pre-processor situation.
>

Matt;

OK - good start.  Would it be a good assumption that the only files you want
to
put a header on are those files that are coming from an linux application or
are
ASCII based?  I can not think of a good reason to put a date stamp on the
top of
MS Word or Powerpoint presentation files...

If its straight ASCII files, this is pretty easy.  You could easily set up
another
printer definition in the /etc/printcap file, and run the file being sent to
that
different printer definition.  That definition would enable the "of" option
in the
printcap file and run everything through an output filter before it goes
into the
queue.

Let me know.

Bob

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