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Hi Matthew,

We are used to talk about 'software printer', linked to a script but a device.
Defined like this into uvspool/sp.config , each printer is defined on one line

PRINTERNAME /dev/null.printername DRIVER /uvspool/lpuv.sh FORMS DEFAULT
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PRINTERNAME is the name of the printer used under uv 
/dev/null.printername is a empty file used by uvspool to lock the device during a printing, using a file per printername avoid locks if you use /dev/null on all printername
DRIVER /uvspool/lpuv.sh is a unix script which handle the job

#get the args ; the shift kill the first arg from the list, the all are read from $1, as 'first arg' 
uv_jobnr=$1         ; shift  ;# job nr , same as displayed on SETPTR 
uv_jobsize=$1       ; shift  ;# job size in byte
uv_uid=$1           ; shift  ;# userid = uv @LOGNAME 
uv_banner=$1        ; shift  ;# banner set by SETPTR BANNER
uv_form=$1          ; shift  ;# form name requested
uv_printer=$1       ; shift  ;# printer name requested
uv_linelenght=$1    ; shift  ;# line lenght from SETPTR
uv_pagelenght=$1    ; shift  ;# page lenght from SETPTR
uv_eject=$1         ; shift  ;# eject flag from SETPTR 1/0
uv_banner=$1        ; shift  ;# banner flag print it 1/0
uv_useropts=$*      ; shift  ;# USEROPTS options - one string

#force printername to lowercase 
PRINTER=`echo $uv_printer | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`
# get username 
USERNAME=`grep $uv_uid /etc/passwd | cut -d : -f 5`
lpr -P $PRINTER-U uv_uid -C "uvspool $uv_jobnr $USERNAME"
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if you use cat > /tmp/$uv_jobnr.txt vs lpr you get the job into a file, then you can manipulate it, encapsulate, route it to email, to auxilary printer, pass to other software , ... do what you want with the job. 
We are used to define 'standard' printernames as : 
- pdf : send the job to a pdf converter 
- email : send the job to the user by email
- saveas : send into a document manager with metadata (date/time/user/useropt/... 
- pdfmailto : send the job to a pdf converter then send the job to the user by email 
etc

I hope this help

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Manu Fernandes
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