lpstat -o for ipp-printers

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Mon Jan 22 08:57:08 PST 2007


Christoph Litauer wrote:
> 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
> 

I think you might take the ipptest (or testipp, whatever it is named)
from the CUPS source distribution as a basis for such an utility.

Helge


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