Integrate Printing into this server

nariox commented 11 years ago

Hi, I've been using PHP Scanner Server in my office, it is great. Since we only have one scanner, I connected it to our Linux Server and now everyone can scan without needing drivers, different log ins etc.

Would it be possible to integrate a Print server as well? I know I could try to use Samba to do it, but some of the computers are not in the same subnet (due to the university's network configuration).

My idea would be: 1 - Upload file 2 - Issue a "lpr" command

Again, thank you for the great software! (;

GM-Script-Writer-62850 commented 11 years ago

This feature is built in to ubuntu, you just add a network printer, just open system-config-printer Server - > Settings Check the appropriate boxes, then add a network printer on the windows client if i were on xp and wanted to connect to the printer this would be the url http://10.0.0.50:631/printers/Deskjet-F4400-series you can get a url from adding the printer as a network printer on the server this way would be better than adding a feature like that to the scanner, since you can print anything here is a guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkPrintingWithUbuntu

nariox commented 11 years ago

Hi, thank you for the fast response.

This is actually part of cups, not specific to Ubuntu (or even Linux), it is a nice feature, but it does have some limitations. For instance, if I want to print from laptop from the office, I would need to install the driver on that laptop, I know it is quite simple, but at the same time, it'd be nice if I could just send the pdf to the server and have it print it for me.

Another use that I've been looking at is printing pdfs from my phone. I know, I know, "who needs that?" right? I don't know, just wondering. I think it would be a nice addition for the php-scanner-server, but I agree that it is somewhat superfluous.

GM-Script-Writer-62850 commented 11 years ago

i know back when i used XP and i shared my printer there was a option to share it and require other systems to have drivers, there may be a Linux equivalent of this feature, since i don't use windows any more i never had a use for that do smart phones not support networked printing? there is a print button on the page when you scan something, then the browser uses the print function PHP has a max file upload size, so keep that in mind http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_file_upload.asp you can just save the file to /tmp then run the command with shell_exec then deleted the file you saved

edit: http://www.ehow.com/how_5981119_print-smartphone.html

nariox commented 11 years ago

My phone (Android 4.2) does not natively support printing (as far as I know). By selecting the cups-shared printer, I can do "driverless" printing (as long as I'm ok with not using some specific capabilities like automatic double-sided printing etc).

If I select that option, the browser loads the image I selected and issues a print command on my local machine (not on the server).

Pedro Nariyoshi

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:44 AM, GM-Script-Writer-62850 < notifications@github.com> wrote:

i know back when i used XP and i shared my printer there was a option to share it and require other systems to have drivers, there may be a Linux equivalent of this feature, since i don't use windows any more i never had a use for that do smart phones not support networked printing? there is a print button on the page when you scan something, then the browser uses the print function

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GM-Script-Writer-62850 commented 11 years ago

I would think you could change the default printer