I’ll need to mirror print stuff regularly (flip across the vertical axis), and I’m trying to make the process convenient.
The manual way to mirror print would be by invoking lp
, e.g.
lp -o mirror myfile.pdf
Invoking lp would work for images, PDF, ps etc. But but for application (open office draw) files. Unfortunately, I don’t see an obvious way to mirror print within the application itself.
I’m thinking of setting up a mirror printer in CUPS that would automatically apply the -o mirror to any documents that hit it.
I suspect this would require some tinkering with CUPS filters - I’ll dig into it sometime.
I can’t be the only one who’s needed this at some point in time.
Has anyone here done something similar? Looking forward to your thoughts!
Wow, CUPS is way better than I previously thought and I thought it was amazing!
It is certainly useful for some use cases such as network print servers (I have a dedicated lxc container on the network to do this) and custom conversions of pages (during my digging, I learned about companies using a CUPS network printer to watermark every document being printed).
I’m not an expert by any means: it is definitely a useful tool in certain cases, but oh man… the documentation was a bit hard to figure out for me!