Crate printers

Get printers and send files or bytes to print on unix and windows

Printers is a simple lib to call printers apis for unix (cups) and windows (winspool) systems.

Printers can provide a list of printers available on the system and send print jobs to them

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() {
        let job_id = my_printer.unwrap().print_file("notes.txt", PrinterJobOptions::none());
        // Err("...") or Ok(())
    }

    // Use the default printer
    let default_printer = get_default_printer();
    if default_printer.is_some() {
        let job_id = default_printer.unwrap().print("dlrow olleh".as_bytes(), PrinterJobOptions {
            name: None,
            // options are currently UNIX-only. see https://www.cups.org/doc/options.html
            raw_properties: &[
                ("document-format", "application/vnd.cups-raw"),
                ("copies", "2"),
            ],
        });
        // Err("...") or Ok(())
    }
}

Modules

common

Functions

get_default_printer

Return the default system printer

get_printer_by_name

If you know the printer name, you can try to get the printer directly

get_printers

Return all available printers on a system