[cups.general] Re: Unable to rename printer

[Jeremiah Elliott]

or you could edit the printers.conf file


On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:38:11 -0500, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
> sshankar at novell.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I am working on gnome-cups-manager, GUI tool for printer management for
> > gnome desktop on Linux.
> > I wanted to know if there is any way I can change the printer name? As
> > of now, I found no way through CUPS to change the printer name. Looks
> > like cups is not supporting it, I am not sure. However, this operation
> > is like changing printer attributes like name, description, location
> > etc, which seems very basic operations.
> > Can any of you please clarify me on this issue, if this operation is
> > supported, how to go about it? if its not supported, then why is not
> > supported although, the operation looks very basic need?
> >
> > I am using CUPS 1.1.20
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Santhosh
> 
> As the printer name with CUPS is part of the device URI, it cannot be
> changed.
> As a workaround, you could query CUPS for the printer's attributes,
> delete the
> printer, and add a new one with the new name and all the other
> attributes.
> As you are going to hide this behind a (GUI-)user interface, I think it
> should be
> tolerable.
> 
> In CUPS 1.2, there will be alias names for printers, I think, which
> *can* be modified.
> 
> Helge
> 
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