How to change the backend?

Malte Gell malte.gell at gmx.de
Mon Apr 30 11:58:04 PDT 2007


> But, I´d like to use HPs toolbox and thus have to change the used backend from usb to hp. How can I do this? It seems the printer is configured in /etc/cups/printers.conf, right? There is a line that looks like this:
>
> DeviceURI usb://HP/DeskJet%20920C?serial=FOO
>
> I changed it to
>
> DeviceURI hp://HP/DeskJet%20920C?serial=FOO
>
> Is this really all I have to do to change the used backend?

Ok, can answer myself ;-) A typo caused the trouble, backend now changed succesfully in /etc/cups/printers.conf





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