[cups.general] HowDoI create RAW printer w/lpadmin

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Aug 21 10:52:19 PDT 2008


ed smith wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Using lpadmin, is there a way to create or modify a printer to RAW?
> I was hoping that a command such as:
> 
> lpadmin -p SVC_cha  -v socket://SVC_cha:9100  -L "Charlotte,NC"    -D "HP LJ 5"
> 
> would force it to raw, but it appears that if there is a PPD file by the name of the printer already in /etc/cups/ppd (in this case SVC_cha.ppd) CUPS picks writes it into the configuration.
> I know I can fix this in the GUI, but I have 600 printers to do.

Use:

     lpadmin -p name -m raw

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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