I’m moving the discussion of the following topic to here, because it actually doesn’t belong to the “Code Exchange” section and because there are a lot more people reading this section.
I’m a University-Student and I need to download a lot of PDF’s. Right now I’m already sorting them in different folders using hazel http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php. But I also want to print them automatically using different printer presets, because some files have to be printed in duplex mode, some not, some 2 on 1, some 4 on 1 etc.
I’ve already asked Paul Kim of noodlesoft, but he does not have a solution.
im not sure if this will help or not but I have had a reasonable amount of success with using the Unix Printing System and CUPS, see how it works for you.
I can get it to work now! Great…you saved me a lot of time
here’s how I use it
do shell script (getShellCommand("Brother_HL_5250DN_series", 2, 150, true, false, theFile))
on getShellCommand(thePrinter, upNumber, brightness, isDuplex, islandscape, theFile)
(* arguments description
thePrinter: choose a printer (lpstat -p ENTER, in Terminal, shows all your printer)
upNumber: integer {1,2,4,6,9,16}
isDuplex: boolean, use true or false
brightness: integer, Values greater than 100 will lighten the print, while values less than 100 will darken it
theFile: alias (!) to the File you want to print
also see: http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html for more settings
*)
set theCommand to "lp -d " & thePrinter & " -o number-up=" & upNumber & " -o brightness=" & brightness
if isDuplex then
if islandscape then
set theCommand to theCommand & " -o sides=two-sided-short-edge "
else
set theCommand to theCommand & " -o sides=two-sided-long-edge "
end if
end if
set theCommand to theCommand & quoted form of (POSIX path of (theFile as alias))
return theCommand
end getShellCommand