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NAME

       foomatic-rip - Universal print filter/RIP wrapper

SYNOPSIS

   General Options:
       foomatic-rip [-v] [-q] <mode-specific options>

   Spooler-less printing filter:
       foomatic-rip [-P <printer>   |  --ppd  <ppdfile> ]  [-J <jobtitle> ] [-o  <option>=<value>
        [...]]  [<files>]

   CUPS filter:
       foomatic-rip <jobid> <user> <jobtitle> <numcopies> <options> [<file>]

DESCRIPTION

       foomatic-rip is a universal print filter which can be used as CUPS filter  or  stand-alone
       for spooler-less, direct printing. It has the following features:

       • It  translates  PostScript and PDF from standard input or a file to the printer's native
         language on standard output.

       • The translation is done with an external renderer, usually Ghostscript  (gs(1)).  If  no
         translation  is  needed  (PostScript  printer)  the  renderer's  command line reduces to
         cat(1). The way how this translation is done is described in a PPD file.

       • Printer capabilities, how to handle user options, and how to build the renderer  command
         line is always described by PPD files, these PPD files usually come from Foomatic or can
         be the ones supplied by the manufacturers of PostScript printers. The PPD files are  the
         same for both CUPS and direct printing.

       • foomatic-rip works with CUPS and for direct printing (without spooler), where the latter
         is mainly for testing and debugging.  The mode is selected by the command  line  options
         and environment variables which are supplied to foomatic-rip.

       • foomatic-rip  does  not  only  apply  option  settings  supplied by the user through the
         command line of the printing command, but also searches  the  entire  job  for  embedded
         option  settings  (only  PostScript jobs). Here not only settings which affect the whole
         job are taken into account, but also settings in the page headers, which are only  valid
         for  the  page where they were found, so applications which produce PostScript code with
         page-specific printer option settings are fully supported.

DIRECT, SPOOLER-LESS PRINTING

   Options
       -v        verbose mode for debugging.  WARNING: This will  create  a  file  in  /tmp  that
                 contains  the  debugging information.  This opens a security loophole and should
                 not be used in production.

       -q        quiet mode - minimal information output

       -P <printer>
                 <printer> is the configured printer which should be used for this job.

       --ppd <ppdfile>
                 The PPD file <ppdfile> should be applied for processing this job.

       -o <option>=<value>
                 Option settings for this job.

       <files>   The file(s) to be printed.

       foomatic-rip will print from standard input unless at least one  file  to  be  printed  is
       specified   on   the   command   line.    If   your   printer   PPD   file  is  stored  as
       /etc/direct/<printer>.ppd or ~/.foomatic/direct/<printer>.ppd you can  use  it  by  simply
       specifying "-P <printer>".

       Put a line

       *FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| <command>"

       into  the PPD file, right after *PPD-Adobe: "4.3", where <command> is a command into which
       you want to re-direct the output data. Due to the restrictions of PPD files <,  >,  and  "
       are not allowed in the <command>, replace them as follows:

       Character Replacement
       ---------------------
            <    &lt;
            >    &gt;
            "    &quot;
            '    &apos;
            &    &amp;

       This way you can print directly to your printer, use

       *FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| cat &gt; /dev/lp0"

       or

       *FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| cat &gt; /dev/usb/lp0"

       for  local  parallel or USB printers. To make normal users able to print this way add them
       to the group lp and make sure that the appropriate printer device file /dev/... is  group-
       writable for the lp group.

       for  a  TCP/Socket/JetDirect printer with the host name printer listening on port 9100 you
       need this:

       *FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| /usr/bin/nc -w 1 printer 9100"

       Note the "-w 1" in the "nc" command line, it makes "nc" exiting immediately after the data
       is transferred to the printer.

       *FoomaticRIPPostPipe: "| rlpr -Plp@printserver"

       directs your jobs to the LPD printer queue lp on the machine named printserver.

       See also http://www.openprinting.org/direct-doc.html

PRINTING WITH SPOOLER

       See the documentation on the OpenPrinting Web site: http://www.openprinting.org/

CONFIGURATION FILE

       The   file   /etc/cups/foomatic-rip.conf   or   if   it   is   not   readable   the   file
       /etc/foomatic/filter.conf is read whenever foomatic-rip is  executed.  It  allows  one  to
       configure the behavior of foomatic-rip as follows (lines beginning with # are comments and
       therefore get ignored):

       debug: 0|1
                 Turns on (1) or off (0) the debug mode. This  is  equivalent  to  supplying  the
                 --debug command line option. Default setting is 0.

       echo: [<path>/]<executable>
                 Sets the path to an echo(1) executable which supports -n.

       gspath: [<path>/]<executable>
                 Sets  the  path to the Ghostscript (gs(1)) executable. To be used if Ghostscript
                 is at a non-standard location or if an alternative Ghostscript should be used.

       execpath: <path>[:<path>]...
                 Sets the $PATH variable to be used by foomatic-rip.

       cupsfilterpath: <path>[:<path>]...
                 Sets the directories (colon-separated) in which foomatic-rip searches  for  CUPS
                 filters.

       preferred_shell: [<path>/]<executable>
                 Sets  the  preferred  shell  to  use  when  executing FoomaticRIPCommandLine and
                 friends. Several PPD files use shell constructs that require a more modern shell
                 like bash, zsh, or ksh.

FILES

       /etc/cups/ppd/<printer>.ppd
       /etc/direct/<printer>.ppd

       The PPD files of the currently defined printers

       /etc/cups/foomatic-rip.conf
       /etc/foomatic/filter.conf

       Configuration file for foomatic-rip

EXIT STATUS

       foomatic-rip returns 0 unless something unexpected happens.

AUTHOR

       Till    Kamppeter   <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>   with   parts   of   Manfred   Wassmanns's
       <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> man pages for the Foomatic 2.0.x filters.

BUGS

       None so far.

       Please send bug reports to the OpenPrinting bug tracker:

       http://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/

       Use "OpenPrinting" as the product and "cups-filters" as the component.