query for printer location

[Helge Blischke]

Anonymous wrote:
> 
> Is there an easy way to query cups (like from the command line) to get a list of available printers complete with their descriptions (-D) and locations (-L) as given to lpadmin?
> 
> "lpstat -v" is close to what I want, but I can't see any way to tell the description or location of each printer.
> 
> How would a printing application (say a shell script) find out what printers are available to present a print dialog to the user which was complete with all information about each printer?

I'd suggest to tweak the ipptest utility or (write a wrapper around
it) to make a command that performs a get-printer-attributes
request and prints the attributes you want.

Helge


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