foomatic-rip will print from standard input unless a file to print is specified on the command line. If your printer PPD file is stored as /etc/foomatic/direct/<printer>.ppd or ~/.foomatic/direct/<printer>.ppd you can use it by simply specifying "-P <printer>".

Put a line

*FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| <command>"

into the PPD file, right after *PPD-Adobe: "4.3", where <command> is a command into which you wnat to re-direct the output data. Due to the restictions of PPD files <, >, and " are not allowed in the <command>, replace them as follows:

Character       Replacement

---------------------

This way you can print directly to your printer, use

*FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| cat &gt; /dev/lp0"

or

*FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| cat &gt; /dev/usb/lp0"

for local parallel or USB printers. To make normal users able to print this way add them to the group lp and make sure that the appropriate printer device file /dev/... is group-writable for the lp group.

for a TCP/Socket/JetDirect printer with the host name printer listening on port 9100 you need this:

*FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| /usr/bin/nc -w 1 printer 9100"

Note the "-w 1" in the "nc" command line, it makes "nc" exiting immediately after the data is tranferred to the printer.

*FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| rlpr -Plp@printserver"

directs your jobs to the LPD printer queue lp on the machine named printserver.

See also

See the documentation on the Linux Printing Web site: http://www.linuxprinting.org

/etc/foomatic/cups/<printer>.ppd

/etc/foomatic/lpd/<printer>.ppd

/etc/foomatic/ppr/<printer>.ppd

/etc/foomatic/pdq/<printer>.ppd

/etc/foomatic/direct/<printer>.ppd

The PPD files of the currently defined printers