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Modify existing printer settings in CUPS on RHEL4
Due to some network changes one of our printers has a new IP. A user came to me today with the following quote: “I can’t print from the linux.” The IP was changed a month ago and apparently we don’t...
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2 Printers 1 Queue
My issue: When an order is processed, the same document needs to be printed on two printers. My proposed solution: Create a single queue in CUPS with a backend script that spits the job out to the two...
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Connect to cups printer service from windows server 2008
From windows server 2003 I can easily add a cups printer service from another host: I tried the same on a windows server 2008 machine, as Administrator, but I cannot find a way to add this kind of...
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How to configure cups to allow remote printing with authentication and local...
According to the cupsd.conf documentation, one should be able to “require authentication for remote access, but allow local access without authentication.” There doesn’t appear to be any other...
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Displaying CUPS shared printers in a user’s printer list on OS X Lion
Background We have a primarily Linux environment, but we have 40 Macs to support. I’m trying to integrate them into our standardized print system. We have about 50 printers shared from a CUPS server...
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LPR command won’t recognize CUPS printer
I have a cups server with one shared printer configured on it. It prints test pages without problems. printername (Idle, Accepting Jobs, Shared) Description: desc Location: Driver: Zebra ZPL Label...
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Change CUPS default printer error policy
I run CUPS printing on a number of multiuser Linux application servers. The systems are RHEL or CentOS version 4, 5 or 6. Starting the EL5, the CUPS print server defaults to an error policy that...
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Delay in CUPS socket backend
Using the raw driver to send pre-generated PCL directly to the printer, I get response times around 4 s. When I send it to the printer using netcat I get about 300 ms. It seems that there is some...
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List additional CUPS printer information
How to display printer information, such as printer description or printer location using command line tools? lpstat -t lists printer names, classes and devices for printers, but it doesn’t list...
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How Do I Enable CUPS Browsing Across A Network?
I have a CUPS server with two print queues defined. Once this was defined, all the CUPS clients on the same subnet could see the two print queues automatically, no problem. Now I have a collection of...
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