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10.4: Remote printing via SSH using PDF Services
Authored by: Egrefen on Dec 07, '06 09:10:45AM

This is a pretty cool hint, from a technical standpoint, and I'll keep it handy should the occasion to use it arise.

However, I'm a bit puzzled when it comes to that specific point: what context would warrant using such a script?

If I need a printed copy of a document immediately, this doesn't help.
If I need a copy waiting for me when I get home, can't I just save the document as a PDF and print it when I get home?
If I need someone at home to have a copy, can't I just email them the PDF?

The two cases where I think something like this would come in handy is if I'm away, need to something in print as soon as I get home and don't have time to print it when I get home (if, for example, I need to rush out again immediately).

Or if, for example, I need 10 documents in print for my grandmother, but don't know if she'll know how to print them all (or simply don't want to bother her), and can simply SSH into her mac to print them (so she can just collect them).

But that's about it.

Any other uses come to mind?



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10.4: Remote printing via SSH using PDF Services
Authored by: FlyBoy on Dec 07, '06 09:21:56AM

While you can email a document to someone else to print, you can transfer the document to the home network via scp or some other means, or you could just hold the document to print when you get back to the home/office, these options require intervention from other users or just plain remembering to print the document next time you get on the local network. If the goal is to print a document to a printer at a remote location, this option avoids bothering someone else, filling up an email box with a large file, etc.

I considered all those other options, but wanted to have the capability to print when needed without bothering anyone else.



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10.4: Remote printing via SSH using PDF Services
Authored by: edjusted on Dec 07, '06 10:08:38AM

I also agree that this is a neat hint. I also want to point out that if your printer is a network printer with an ip address, print jobs held in queue will stay there and automatically print the next time you're attached to the network with no user intervention. I do this all the time. I'll "print" to my office printer when I'm at home, and when I come in to the office and connect to the network that the printer's on, everything in the queue starts printing out.



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10.4: Remote printing via SSH using PDF Services
Authored by: freilich on Dec 07, '06 11:25:37AM
This is a great hint for sending faxes by using the phone line back home! I've been doing something similar for a while by calling it from the command line.

lp -d Internal_Modem -o phone=12125551212 file.pdf

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