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

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

Return a vector of available printers

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

Request print of a temp file after write they

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

Request print of specific file from path

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

Try get and return a single printer by your ID

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

Try get and return a single printer by your name

NOTE: getprinterbyid and getprinterbyname 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

```rust 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

For Unix is necessary cups service running to perform lp command to print