poc-print-server

This is a hapi server proving print services to https://github.com/AMPATH/ng-amrs The server uses lpr (http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/options.html) cups command to print pdfs generated by https://github.com/GNOME/glabels (Be sure to compile from source the one provides by ubuntu lacks glabels-3-batch ) you can run

$ glabels-3-batch labelwithname.glabels --input=file.csv --output=out.pdf

this outputs a pdf out.pdf then run

$ lpr out.pdf

You can run

lpstat -p | grep -v off | grep -v paused | grep -v disabled | grep -v directory | grep -v 'ready to print' |sed 's/is idle.*//' | cut -d " " -f2-

to get the names of printers that are ready to accept jobs this will return something like (This works but maybe there is a better way)

DYMO_LabelWriter_450_Turbo
HP_LaserJet_Pro_MFP_M125nw
......etc

you can then run the command above with

lpr DYMO_LabelWriter_450_Turbo out.pdf

To explicitly print to DYMO_LabelWriter_450_Turbo

to print with your default cups printer.If that is okay then run $ npm install to fetch dependencies and then

$ npm start

Currently the server expects a json payload similar to

{
 "template":"labelwithname",
 "printer":"Brother_QL-710W",
 "mergeData":  [
  {
    "first_name": "Emmanuel",
    "last_name": "Nyachoke",
    "middle_name": "A",
    "identifier": "473305528-1",
    "gender": "male"
  }
]}

The order of the fields is important this will then create a CSV

"Emmanuel","Nyachoke","A","473305528-1","male"

meaning in glabels

key 1 = Emmanuel
key 2 = Nyachoke
key 3 = A
key 4 = 473305528-1
key 5 = male

You can the bind them to your label in glabels like

${1}

Instead of the text for the particular widget

The file labelwithname.glabels is a label template for Dymo 999010 Address labels 28.575mm X 88.9mm

This template will work just fine with Brother DK 29mmX90.3mm labels you can jst design on the this printer with glabels