May 9, 2008 @ 16:32
For a project i am working on i needed to have a way to print pictures from Max. The first (and easy) step was to save the image to the disk. But for printing a file there is no default object. But thanks to the aka.shell external I was able to actually print the file on a Mac.
Just as simple as:
lpr -P printername "/path/to/file"
Easy as pie. To configure your printer use CUPS: http://127.0.0.1:631/
update
The most common mistake here is that there is a space in the path to the file. To make sure that it works put this in the messagebox that goes to the aka.shell:
lpr -P printername \"/path/to/file with/spaces\"
This will keep the full path intact instead of splitting it at the space, in which case lpr will never find the file.
Hello!
I was looking at max objects that woud help me print a video still or a photo from max and i found your post on this matter, i an new and max and didnt understand much of what you did to send the image to be printed. could i please ask you for some assistance in this matter? hopefully you could help me, thank you very much for any lights on this matter.
Regards from south america!
Gonzalo
Comment by Gonzalo Vargas — June 11, 2009 @ 17:35