USB printer auto install and config

[Till Kamppeter]

brian.zhang wrote:
>     hello,I am looking for a utility or method that can auto detect the USB printer, and auto config the CUPS without manual add printer by web or cmd line way.
>     With that when I plug a usb printer which CUPS already has its driver, the utility auto add printer, queue and configed properly. Then I can use it whthout manually config. And when I remove the printer, it can auto remove the printer from CUPS.
>     Is it possible? Can anyone help me? Thank you!

This exists and on most modern Linux distributions this is already 
installed. If on your OS such a facility is not available, look for 
system-config-printer and hal-cups-utils:

http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/system-config-printer/
https://fedorahosted.org/hal-cups-utils/

hal-cups-utils is part which does the automatic setup, it uses functions 
of system-config-printer, so both are needed. In addition you need HAL, 
GTK, and Python on your system.

    Till