cli-based printer configuration tool, I need some testers please?

John G. Heim john at johnheim.com
Tue Mar 25 10:25:41 EDT 2014



Cups listens on port 631. You can always point a browser to that port 
for the cups web interface. On your local machines the URL would be 
http://localhost:631.  If you have a print server named printserver, on 
your domain, example.com, the URL ould be 
http://printserver.example.com:631/.


On 03/25/14 08:52, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> I don't remember the name, but cups does have a web based interface.
>
>
> Stephen Dawes
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> Subject: Re: cli-based printer configuration tool, I need some testers please?
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> Hi,
> I actually saw that in the documentation, but have not tested that.
> I did use lpstat -d<queuename> to set a permanent default queue from the
> command line.
> Kind regards, Willem
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, chuckh at ftml.net wrote:
>
>> Hi Willem,
>>
>> I set the environment variable PRINTER to the name of my printer, and it acts as a default for the cups tools. My
>> printer is an HP Officejet 4500, and the HP Deskjet 1010 works the same way. Does that work for you?
>>
>> Chuck
>>
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