lpstat -o for ipp-printers

Christoph Litauer litauer at uni-koblenz.de
Mon Jan 22 07:30:02 PST 2007


Dear admins,

I wonder if it's possible to get the printer status of remote ipp
printers, served by a cups service and used by another cups daemon
running on another machine, e.g.:

- cups 1.1.23 running on 'printhost' offers 50 printers
- cups 1.1.23 running on 'somehost' learned these printers

somehost $ lpstat -v | grep myprinter
device for pdfmail: ipp://printhost:631/printers/myprinter

somehost $ lpstat -o myprinter
somehost $

somehost $ env CUPS_SERVER=printhost lpstat -o myprinter
myprinter-14648   user1    12959744   Mon Jan 22 15:58:01 2007
myprinter-14658   user2      524288   Mon Jan 22 16:00:27 2007

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Regards
Christoph
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