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ipp-printer

Create a printer on your network using nothing but Node.js. This module implements the IPP protocol and uses Bonjour to advertise a printer on your local network that anyone can print to.

This module is still work in progress!

ipp-printer

Installation

npm install ipp-printer

Usage

var Printer = require('ipp-printer')

var printer = new Printer('My Printer')

printer.on('job', function (job) {
  fs.writeFile('job.ps', job.data)
})

API

`new Printer([options])`

The Printer object can be initialized with either the printer name as a string or an object containing:

name - Optional name of the printer (defaults to Node JS)
port - Optional port the printer should listen on (defaults to a random available port)

Event: job

function (job) {}

Emitted each time a new job is ready. The actual document data will be available via job.data.

Job object example:

{
  id: 1,
  state: 9,
  data: <Buffer 25 21 50 ...>,
  attributes: [
    { tag: 69, name: 'job-printer-uri', value: 'ipp://watson.local.:3000/' },
    { tag: 69, name: 'job-uri', value: 'ipp://watson.local.:3000/1' },
    { tag: 66, name: 'job-name', value: 'My Document Title' },
    { tag: 66, name: 'job-originating-user-name', value: 'watson' },
    { tag: 68, name: 'job-state-reasons', value: 'none' },
    { tag: 33, name: 'time-at-creation', value: 40 },
    { tag: 71, name: 'attributes-charset', value: 'utf-8' },
    { tag: 72, name: 'attributes-natural-language', value: 'en-us' }
  ],
  processingAt: 1447830263340,
  completedAt: 1447830263340
}

See the ipp-encoder for an explanation of the tag values.

Event: request

function (request) {}

Emitted each time a new IPP request is received. The request body is available via request.body.

`printer.name`

The printer name.

`printer.port`

The port of the printer is listening on.

`printer.jobs`

An array of all jobs handled by the printer.

`printer.server`

An instance of http.Server.

License

MIT