Broadcast Printing

baronobeefdip · 08-16-2012, 03:23 PM

I want to be able to print a single job on multiple printer servers on the same LAN, I can successfully add a printer to cups on the client computer, So how do i print from all of the printers in the cups configuration that are on the network.

michaelk · 08-16-2012, 05:25 PM

Looks somewhat nefarious...

It is possible to create a cups filter/script to send the job to multiple printers. It would be easy to find all attached printers using lpstat -a command. I didn't find any cups command line utilities that browsed the network for shared printers but writing a program using the cups api is doable. It is also possible to directly print to the remote server but it requires configuration changes to both the client and server.