#printing #print #cups #winspool

printers

A lib to get printers and print files on unix and windows

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Printers: A printing APIs implementation for unix (cups) and windows (winspool).

Provides all system printers, create and get print jobs.

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Documentation

See the references in docs.rs.

Features

Target API List printers List jobs Print bytes and text files Print PDF,images, etc...
Unix cups
Windows winspool 🤔**

** On Windows this lib use RAW datatype to process printing. Expected output depends of printer firmware.

Examples

Get all available printers

let printers = get_printers();
// Vec<Printer>

Create print job of an byte array

printer.print("42".as_bytes());
// Result<(), &'static str>

Create print job of an file

printer.print_file("my_file/example/path.txt");
// Result<(), &'static str>

Get a printer by name

let my_printer = get_printer_by_name("my_printer");
// Option<Printer>

Get the default printer

let printer = get_default_printer();
// Option<Printer>

Simple compilation

use printers::{get_printer_by_name, get_default_printer, get_printers};

fn main() {

    // Iterate all available printers
    for printer in get_printers() {
        println!("{:?}", printer);
    }

    // Get a printer by the name
    let my_printer = get_printer_by_name("my_printer");
    if my_printer.is_some() {
        my_printer.unwrap().print_file("notes.txt", None);
        // Err("") or Ok(())
    }

    // Use the default printer
    let default_printer = get_default_printer();
    if default_printer.is_some() {
        default_printer.unwrap().print("dlrow olleh".as_bytes(), Some("My Job"));
        // Ok(())
    }

}

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