[cups.general] query for printer location

[Anonymous]

Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 04:26:24PM +0000, 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.
>
> lpstat -t
>
> gives more information
>
> Jerome Alet
>
Yup, but it doesn't tell me the description or location :(.

Seems like this would be a very common thing to want to access. I notice in openoffice it detects cups printers automatically (and it not do this under lpr).  But it lists only the printer name--not the location.  Seems like any printing application would like to have a more detailed description of what each printer is.