Adding printers...

[Anonymous]

> Zachary Ploskey wrote:
> > (reposted from dev, i must be blind) I'm using cups version 1.1.2,
> > and when adding a printer it kept giving me an error:
> >
> > The printer name may only contain up to 127 printable characters.
> >
> > Now, all I had for my name was "hp deskjet 841c", so that error
> > message is bogus.  It turns out that it does not allow any spaces in
> > the printer name at all.  Perhaps this was fixed in subsequent
> > versions of cups, I haven't bothered to upgrade (this version came
> > with Slackware 10).
>
> Technically, the space character doesn't print anything.  We don't
> support spaces in printer names for a lot of good reasons (the main
> one being that it would totally break things for legacy apps...
>
> We recommend that you use the underscore (_) in place of spaces for
> the printer name, and use the name with spaces for the description/
> info field.
>
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