USB printer auto install and config
brian.zhang
brian.zhang at benq.com
Mon Dec 1 17:13:46 PST 2008
> 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
Thanks you, Till.I did it on my Linux distribution, and it has both components. Then I plug USB printer, and printer worked properly without manual config.
Rgs
Brian
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