[cups.development] retrieving device uri of printers

[Jerome Alet]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:19:35PM -0400, boklyn wong wrote:
> HI i am doing some development on software that is built upon 
> cups. My development requires retrival of printing information of 
> the printers registered and detected by cups. Cups provides function 
> to retrive printer names as well as ppd files based on printer 
> names. I have not yet found an interface that would return other 
> information stored by cups like the device uri in which the printer 
> is currently registered. I was wondering if anyone has found a way 
> to retrieve other detail information about the printer. 

  $ lpstat -t
  
or :  

  $ man lpstat
  
hth  

Jerome Alet