[ILUG] cups question

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Tue Oct 8 15:42:02 IST 2002


On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:27:40PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
John P. Looney thought:
>  I seem to be having a little trouble with it. My printers.conf is:
> 
> <DefaultPrinter lp>
> Info Hp4050
> Location locals
> DeviceURI ipp://192.168.2.90:9100/
            ^^^^^^
Shouldn't that be "socket://" for a jetdirect?

>  and cupds uses that to make a printcap of:
> 
> lp:
> 
>  Sounds dodgy to me. If someone has an example printers.conf/printcap for
> a JetDirect printer, I'd appreciate it if they sent it on.

My cups config...

[root at Hobbiton cups]# more printers.conf
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.14
# Written by cupsd on Sun 06 Oct 2002 10:43:31 PM GMT
<DefaultPrinter eps70>
Info Epson C70 on hobbiton
DeviceURI epson:/dev/lp0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>

[root at Hobbiton cups]# more /etc/printcap
eps70:

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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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