kehralexander / virtual-cups-printer

Virtual cupsd printer that will expose a postscript printer via avahi and output anything printed to it to a pdf

Cups/paperless-printer Docker Container

This docker file will create a virtual printer in cupsd that will output to /mnt/output. This will allow printing from a network postcript printer that will output a pdf to a volume or mount. You can change the output path in cups-pdf.conf

One possible use of this is in conjunection with a paperless-ngx consume directory to read pdf's.

Install

See docker-compose.yml for example. Names and targets can be parameterized via variables

The http/print server will listen on port 631. The default username/password is print/print, and can be changed in the Dockerfile

Avahi (Optional, but recommended)

In order to make the printer discoverable, avahi needs to be set up. For it to work correctly on the network, it should share the network space with its own IP. The easiest way to do this is to assign it a static IP in non-dhcp space via macvlan.

Macvlan

Docker-compose setup, for example in 192.168.0.0/24 space.

network:
  vlan:
    driver: macvlan
    driver_opts:
      parent: eth0 #Update as necessary
    ipam:
      config:
        - subnet: "192.168.0.0/24"
          ip_range: "192.168.0.200/32"
          gateway: "192.168.0.1"