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Printers

Printers is not a lib for printer drivers or cups. Printers is a simple lib for running "native" printing commands in unix (lp/lpstat) and windows (lpr/wmic) systems.

Printer can provide a list of printers available on the system and perform document printing.

Behavior

printers::get_printers() -> Vec<Printer>

Return a vector of available printers

printers::print(Printer, &[u8]) -> Job
printer.print(&[u8]) -> Job

Request print of a temp file after write they

printers::print_file(Printer, &str) -> Job
printer.print_file(&str) -> Job

Request print of specific file from path

printers::get_printer_by_id(&str) -> Option<Printer>

Try get and return a single printer by your ID

printers::get_printer_by_name(&str) -> Option<Printer>

Try get and return a single printer by your name

NOTE: get_printer_by_id and get_printer_by_name yet is a simple utility, this functions just apply filters over call get_printers() result. They are improved on future to be more performatic

Example

use printers;

fn main() {


    // Vector of system printers
    let printers = printers::get_printers();

    // Print directly in all printers
    for printer in printers.clone() {

        let job1 = printer.print("42".as_bytes());
        let job2 = printer.print_file("/path/to/any.file");

        println!("{:?}", printer);
        println!("{:?}", job1);
        println!("{:?}", job2);
    }

    // Print with aux lib function (legacy)
    printers::print(&printers[0], "42".as_bytes());
    printers::print_file(&printers[1], "/path/to/any.file");

    // Try get printer by uuid
    let test_printer = printers::get_printer_by_name("4be0643f-1d98-573b-97cd-ca98a65347dd");
    println!("{:?}", test_printer);

    // Try printer by name
    let test_printer = printers::get_printer_by_name("test");
    println!("{:?}", test_printer);

}

System Requiriments

Windows / LPD

For Windows is necessary turn on LPR and LPD running on localhost to perform lpr command to print

Unix / Cups