[cups.general] using client.conf on MacOS 10.5

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Sun Jun 1 07:14:40 PDT 2008


Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> hi,
> I tried to use client.conf on MacOS 10.5: it works, as all
> the printers defined on the print server are actually seen...but
> with only the model name, and not the printer name.
> That makes cups impossible to use, as we have several printers of the
> same model.
> Is there a way to get the correct names?

Mac OS X clients show the description (printer-info), which defaults
to the model name when you add the printer.  Just modify the
description to get different names.  You can do this from the
command-line with:

     lpadmin -p printername -D "Description"

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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