How to develop a printing server?

[cuinl]

Hi,

I have scanner program that send scanned pictures to printer through firewire.
I want to develop a server that will recieve the scanned pictures instead of the printer, will schedule them, and send them to the printer.
Both connections of scanner->server and server->printer should be by firewire (The speed is the most important issue for me).

Any one has an idea how to cope with this issue?
Should the server pretend to be a printer, so the scanner will send the pictures to it?
Do I have to dig into the printing protocol in order to enable the server communicate with both scanner and printer?
I don't have a clue how to approch this issue :confused: ,
So any help will be very appreciated.

Thanks,
Alon