Papercut MF server

This is a docker container of a trial version of the papercut mf server. This is created for development and testing purposes and not meant to run in production in any capacity.

Important: By using this image, you agree to papercut's eula.

Important: This image is x86 only, because Papercut MP is x86 only. To use this effectively on ARM, enable Rosetta emulation on docker desktop

Registries

• https://hub.docker.com/r/isengrim/papercut

Tags

• 21.0.4.57587, latest

Features

• Standalone installation of papercut mf server
• Standalone installation of cups
• Starts an ssh server to accept papercut server commands remotely
  • https://www.papercut.com/help/manuals/ng-mf/common/tools-server-command
• Papercut is setup to automatically pick up new prints created in cups
• Sample lorem-ipsum.pdf is included to allow users to easily send a print
  • docker exec <container> runuser -l <user> "lp -d nul /lorem-ipsum.pdf"

Example docker command

# 9191 exposes papercut server (http://localhost:9191)
# 631 exposes cups admin (http://localhost:631/admin)

docker run -d \
    -p 9191:9191 \
    -p 631:631 \
    isengrim/papercut:latest

Example docker-compose

The papercut server requires several manual steps before it can be used. These steps has to be manually click through the UI and is impossible to automate by API. Fortunately, this can be automated by writing a selenium script. See docker-compose.yml.

After that, we can run server-commands to further configure the server. See server-commands.

Troubleshooting

PaperCut server keeps crashing

Out of memory

One possible cause is that your machine is running out of memory. Allocate more memory or close other apps

Ensure your shell is running in x86 mode

Use uname -a to check which mode your shell is running in. Force it into x86 mode.