I’ll need to mirror print stuff regularly (flip across the vertical axis), and I’m trying to make the process convenient.
The manual way to mirror print would be by invoking lp, e.g.
lp -o mirror myfile.pdf
Invoking lp would work for images, PDF, ps etc. But but for application (open office draw) files. Unfortunately, I don’t see an obvious way to mirror print within the application itself.
I’m thinking of setting up a mirror printer in CUPS that would automatically apply the -o mirror to any documents that hit it.
I suspect this would require some tinkering with CUPS filters - I’ll dig into it sometime.
I can’t be the only one who’s needed this at some point in time.
Has anyone here done something similar? Looking forward to your thoughts!
It is certainly useful for some use cases such as network print servers (I have a dedicated lxc container on the network to do this) and custom conversions of pages (during my digging, I learned about companies using a CUPS network printer to watermark every document being printed).
I’m not an expert by any means: it is definitely a useful tool in certain cases, but oh man… the documentation was a bit hard to figure out for me!