Printing a job to 2 printers at the same time

Shawn Badger shawn at badger.pro
Mon Mar 19 06:43:55 MST 2012


I'm not a 100% sure what kind of file it will be, but I am thinking it
will be a text file.
In my searches I found that I may be able to use the tee command and
lpr as well. I'm not sure that would be the cleanest way of doing it,
but it would be better than nothing.



On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:30 PM, John <jharitos at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think the lpr command is a part of cups. You could print to two computers
> using this but you need to write a script to do this. Is the file a txt,
> pdf, or ps? lpr needs this format.
>
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> From: Shawn Badger <shawn at badger.pro>
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> Subject: Printing a job to 2 printers at the same time
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> Does anyone know of way to print the same job to multiple printers though
> CUPS?
>
> I found tea4cups http://www.pykota.com/software/tea4cups but it looks
> like it hasn't been maintained in a while and it is behind a $25
> paywall.
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