foomatic-rip [-v] [-q] [-d] <filter specific options>

foomatic-rip [-P <printer> | --ppd <ppdfile> ] [-J <jobtitle> ] [-o <option>=<value> [...]] [<files>]

foomatic-rip <jobid> <user> <jobtitle> <numcopies> <options> [<file>]

foomatic-rip --lprng [-J<jobtitle>][-Z<option>=<value>[,<option>=<value>[, ...]] <ppdfile>

foomatic-rip [-J<jobtitle>][-Z<option>=<value>[,<option>=<value>[, ...]]

(printcap :pdd=<ppdfile>)

foomatic-rip --ppd <ppdfile>[-J<jobtitle>] [-Z<option>=<value>[,<option>=<value>[, ...]]

foomatic-rip [-w <number>] [-l <number>] [-x <number>] [-y <number>] [-i <number>] [-c] [-n <string>] [-h <string>] [-j|-J <jobtitle>|<options>] <ppdfile>

foomatic-rip [<option>=<value> [...]]

foomatic-rip <queue> <destaddress> <options> <jobbreak> <feedback> <codes> <jobname> <routing> <for> <filetype> [<file>]

foomatic-rip [--ppd <ppdfile>] [-o <option>=<value> [...]] --genpdq|--appendpdq|--genrawpdq|--appendrawpdq

foomatic-rip --pdq --ppd <ppdfile>] [-o <option>=<value> [...]] <file>

foomatic-rip --cps -P <printer> [-J <jobtitle>] [-o <option>=<value> [...]] [<files>]

-v

verbose mode for debugging. WARNING: This will create a file in /tmp that contains the debugging information. This opens a security loophole and should not be used in production.

-q

quiet mode - minimal information output

-d

identical to the 'opts' option, but option information is left in text format. This is useful for running foomatic-rip from the command line to determine what the printer option are. The PPD file will need to be specified using the --ppd option.

-P <printer>

<printer> is the configured printer which should be used for this job.

--ppd <ppdfile>

The PPD file <ppdfile> should be applied for processing this job.

-J <jobtitle>

The <jobtitle> will be printed in the head line of every page of a plain text job.

-o <option>=<value>

Option settings for this job, do

foomatic-rip -P <printer> -o docs <file>

(<file> can be an arbitrary existing file, as .bashrc, will not be printed) to print a list of available options for the specified <printer>.

<files>

The file(s) to be printed.

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 restrictions 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 transferred to the printer.

*FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| rlpr -Plp@printserver"

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

See also http://www.linuxprinting.org/direct-doc.html