basic printing profile server?

Bluez-devel Adam Goode 5 participants 5 messages Apr 26, 2007 – Oct 19, 2007 Bluetooth drivers

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Adam Goode

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2007-04-26 01:44 UTC #0 lore raw

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has worked on a basic printing profile server for Linux? By server, I mean a way that phones or other small devices can send jobs to a Linux desktop host which would then print through CUPS (or lpd, etc.).

It seems like a missing piece, since CUPS can already print to bluetooth printers.

My new phone supports printing of SMS messages and photos, so before I try writing a server for it, I wanted to check to see if someone has done it.

Thanks,

Adam

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Kelly Price

2007-04-26 02:13 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 5 lines · Adam Goode

I was wondering if anyone has worked on a basic printing profile server for Linux? By server, I mean a way that phones or other small devices can send jobs to a Linux desktop host which would then print through CUPS (or lpd, etc.).

I'm intrested myself.

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Marcel Holtmann

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2007-04-26 17:25 UTC #2 lore raw

In reply to Adam Goode

Hi Adam,

Quoted 4 lines

I was wondering if anyone has worked on a basic printing profile server for Linux? By server, I mean a way that phones or other small devices can send jobs to a Linux desktop host which would then print through CUPS (or lpd, etc.).

there have been ideas about it, but I can't recall an actual implementation. However it might happen that INdT starts working on something like this in the future.

Quoted 2 lines

It seems like a missing piece, since CUPS can already print to bluetooth printers.

The CUPS plugin can only print via HCRP and Serial Port Profile.

Quoted 3 lines

My new phone supports printing of SMS messages and photos, so before I try writing a server for it, I wanted to check to see if someone has done it.

There are many printing profiles around. You should check which one the phone actually uses. Run "hcidump -X -V" and look for the profile UUID it requests.

Regards

Marcel

Sumeet VERMA

2007-04-27 04:20 UTC #3 lore raw

Hi
I have seen the dump of a printing application for Nokia phones (Nokia 6600). Its developed by nokia and HP collectively. It asks for BPP. However it wont work with your device if you don't support application/vnd.pwg-multiplexed doc format. Same goes with Nokia N Series.

Regards,
Sumeet
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcel Holtmann
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:56 PM
To: BlueZ development
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] basic printing profile server?

Hi Adam,

Quoted 4 lines

I was wondering if anyone has worked on a basic printing profile server for Linux? By server, I mean a way that phones or other small devices can send jobs to a Linux desktop host which would then print through CUPS (or lpd, etc.).

there have been ideas about it, but I can't recall an actual implementation. However it might happen that INdT starts working on something like this in the future.

Quoted 2 lines

It seems like a missing piece, since CUPS can already print to bluetooth printers.

The CUPS plugin can only print via HCRP and Serial Port Profile.

Quoted 3 lines

My new phone supports printing of SMS messages and photos, so before I try writing a server for it, I wanted to check to see if someone has done it.

There are many printing profiles around. You should check which one the phone actually uses. Run "hcidump -X -V" and look for the profile UUID it requests.

Regards

Marcel

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Claudio Takahasi

2007-10-19 14:44 UTC #4 lore raw

Does someone still interested on help me?

The objective is create a BPP server(CUPS proxy). The objects/jobs are pushed to the desktop(BPP server), PostScripts and raw text documents it works perfect since CUPS already supports filters for these formats. However for XHTML-Print we have to implement a new CUPS filter. I don't want convert XHTML-Print to PostScript inside in the BlueZ.

The simple push model is trivial, however for the Job-Based transfer model we need put more effort. The current prototype is able to handle SOAP messages, but I am facing a problem: I have no idea how retrieve a referenced image.

This is the last data received after create a job:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
...

        <body>
...
                <div class="page_last">

                        <div id="img_frame" class="position1">
                                <img class="img_details1"
src="obex:1120/mmc/09242007082.jpg" alt=""/>
                        </div>
                </div>
        </body>

</html>

According to the BPP spec the referenced img should be retrived using a object channel/reverse channel, defined in the Sender's Basic Printing Referenced Objects Service Record. But my N95 doesn't contains any record with this UUID. How can I retrieve this img? I tried to send a GetReferencedObjects msg in the same job channel(instead of establish a reverse connection) but it is not working. The printer I ordered will arrive next week only :-(

BR,
Claudio.

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Quoted 36 lines · Sumeet VERMA

Hi
I have seen the dump of a printing application for Nokia phones (Nokia 6600). Its developed by nokia and HP collectively. It asks for BPP. However it wont work with your device if you don't support application/vnd.pwg-multiplexed doc format. Same goes with Nokia N Series.
Regards,
Sumeet
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcel Holtmann
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:56 PM
To: BlueZ development
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] basic printing profile server?
Hi Adam,
Quoted 4 lines
I was wondering if anyone has worked on a basic printing profile server for Linux? By server, I mean a way that phones or other small devices can send jobs to a Linux desktop host which would then print through CUPS (or lpd, etc.).
there have been ideas about it, but I can't recall an actual implementation. However it might happen that INdT starts working on something like this in the future.
Quoted 2 lines
It seems like a missing piece, since CUPS can already print to bluetooth printers.
The CUPS plugin can only print via HCRP and Serial Port Profile.
Quoted 3 lines
My new phone supports printing of SMS messages and photos, so before I try writing a server for it, I wanted to check to see if someone has done it.

Quoted 8 lines

There are many printing profiles around. You should check which one the phone actually uses. Run "hcidump -X -V" and look for the profile UUID it requests.
Regards
Marcel

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