Installation & Setup

• Installation
• Publishing the config file
• Setting up a print driver
  • PrintNode
  • CUPS

#Installation

laravel-printing can be installed via composer:

composer require rawilk/laravel-printing

#Publishing the config file

You may publish the config file like this:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="printing-config"

The contents of the default configuration file can be found here: https://github.com/rawilk/laravel-printing/blob/main/config/printing.php

#Setting up a print driver

To print with laravel printing, you must set up a supported print driver.

#PrintNode

• You must sign up for an account at PrintNode. You can sign up here: https://app.printnode.com/app/login/register
• Review the requirements for the PrintNode driver
• Enter your api key in your .env file: PRINT_NODE_API_KEY=your-api-key

#CUPS

• Review the requirements for the CUPS driver
• If using a remote server, enter your remote server credentials in the .env file (see config)
• In the terminal, run: composer require smalot/cups-ipp

#Job Names

If you're having an issue sending the name of the job to CUPS, try changing JobPrivateValues default to JobPrivateValues none in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.