Re: Use of Cups printing in a home network.

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On Saturday 01 July 2006 15:40, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > FWIW, I set this up before I read the conventional wisdom that one should
> > not
> > mix cups configuration and system-config-printer.  I used both tools, and
> > have had no problems.  HTH
>
> You are very lucky.
> CUPS is great when it is working.
> When it is not working it is a nightmare.
> The Fedora tools (like system-config-printer) don't work properly,
> and the CUPS documentation was written by cyborgs.
>
Perhaps I was :-) but it worked for me!

> Incidentally, you didn't mention /etc/cups/printers.conf .
> I have the line
> DeviceURI ipp://alfred:631/printers/lj
> in printers.conf on my laptop.
> (My desktop, to which the printer is attached, is called "alfred".)
>
Here's the whole of it from the server:

/etc/cups/printers.conf

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
# Written by cupsd on Fri 23 Jun 2006 02:14:55 PM BST
<DefaultPrinter Printer>
DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0
Location Default printer
Info Default printer
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>
<Printer Draft>
DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0
Location Four pages on 1 sheet
Info Four pages on 1 sheet
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>
<Printer Photo>
DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0
Location Gloss paper, hi-res, no duplex
Info Gloss paper, hi-res, no duplex
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>
<Printer deskjet-990c--1>
DeviceURI 
hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_3304_ES1271D1TZLG_if0_printer_ES1271D1TZLG
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>

This allows me to use kprinter from any app, selecting the configuration I 
need, although they all refer to the same physical printer.

/etc/cups/printer.conf on the client boxes is, of course, empty apart from 
comments.

Anne

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