> > I'm currently processing orders one by one and I'd like to increase > > automation. I'm currently submitting an order number from my > > desktop to my server via firefox, and manually opening and printing > > the resultant receipt and shipping label. How would you guys > > suggest I set this up to batch so that I can process all orders > > with one click and have the resultant receipts and shipping labels > > print > > automatically, all at once? The printing part is what I'm having > > difficulty conceptualizing because I do all of my programming on > > the server side and the printing needs to happen on the client > > side. Not sure how to get those two working together. Both > > systems run Gentoo. > > Printing always on the same client? That's easy. CUPS can print over > the network. Configure a queue for that client on the server.
Yeah, always on the same client. So I would set up cups on the remote server and fill up its queue with files to be printed, and set my local Gentoo firewall/printserver to monitor the server's cups queue? Could I instead have the server do something like 'lpr my.ip.address:631'? - Grant > If printing is supposed to happen on a variety of clients, that's a > wee bit more complex. Configure a queue for each client. Now you must > use some middleware (cgi, php, ...) on the server that figures out > from which client (IP) the request has come. Use the appropriate > queue. Shouldn't be too difficult. > > Uwe -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
