pliigo-cups-agent

pliigo cups agent is a tool to programaticly add and remove cups printers to your system. It also provides an shell tool, e.g. to remotely manage this through shell.

We highly recommend, you install the gutenprint library http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net.

With that library installed, you can cover printer drivers for a huge amount of printers. Of course you may use the generic PS/PCL CUPS drivers.

More information is in the pliigo-cups-agent wiki page.

INSTALLATION

npm install pliigo-cups-agent -g

Use the global flag, to install it globally and you may call the shell tool directly by pliigo-cups-agent

GUIDED SHELL TOOL

pliigo-cups-agent [cmd]

AVAILABLE COMMANDS

• list
• find
• install
• manage
• remove

list

List all installed printers

find

Find all available printers for installation

install

Find all available printers for installation and then install it to the system

manage

Manage an installed printer

remove

Remove an installed printer

WHEN NO COMMAND IS PASSED

You will get the help if no command is passed.

$ pliigo-cups-agent 
 
  Usage: pliigo-cups-agent [command] [options]
 
 
  Commands:
 
    list               List all installed printers
    find               Find all available printers for installation
    install            Install a printer from available printers
    manage             Manage an installed printer
    remove             Remove an installed printer
 
  Options:
 
    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number
 
  Examples:
 
    ...

PROGRAMATIC USAGE (yet not finished)

The programatic usage is under construction to make it more easy and consistent

// create a print manager instance
var PrintManager = require('pliigo-cups-agent')();
 
// get printers
var arrPrinters = PrintManager.getPrinters();
 
// get one specific Printer
var brotherPrinter = PrintManager.getPrinter("BROTHER_HL-2030N");
 
// uninstall this printer
brotherPrinter.uninstall(function(err){
    if(err){
        // do something in case of error
    }
});

YET OPEN TASKS

• SHELL LIST WORKFLOW
• SHELL FIND/DISCOVER WORKFLOW
• SHELL INSTALL WORKFLOW
• SHELL UNINSTALL WORKFLOW
• SHELL MANAGE WORKFLOW
• FINISH PROGRAMATIC USAGE
• FINISH README PAGE
• FINISH WIKI PAGE