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UPDATE: Cups class physical destination

Posted by Will – December 5, 2009

Not that long ago I was searching for a way to find the printer a job sent to a CUPS class printed to. After poking around on the cups.org forums, Michael Sweet responded with information about the “job-actual-printer-uri” IPP attribute.

The code is something like:

self.cups = cups.Connection()

def getActualPrinter(self, jobid):
job_attributes = self.cups.getJobAttributes(jobid)
return job_attributes['job-actual-printer-uri']

Now with the added code, I’ve added physical destination to the CCIS print queue viewer. We have several queues that all point to the same printer (name-simplex, name-duplex, etc all point to name). The same code for identifying destination on print classes also works for these cases.

Print Queue Viewer

CCIS Print Queue Viewer

Cups class physical destination

Posted by Will – October 28, 2009

Dear Lazyweb,

If one creates a print class in CUPS, is it possible to query for the destination printer within that class that a job was actually sent to? There seems to be very little documentation on this sort of thing…