Adding printer through command line

franz.pfoertsch.brose franz.pfoertsch at brose.com
Wed Jun 25 01:17:40 PDT 2008


> Hi,
>
> I have installed cups-1.3.7 in HP-UX 11.11.
> I have added printer through cups UI. when i give lpstat -p command, no printers got listed.
>
> Why my printers added through UI is not listed when i gave lpstat -p -d.
>
> then i tried to add printer through command line.
> lpadmin -ptesting -vlpd://..../print -m...ppd
> error: ...ppd non existent in model directory.
>
> I placed my ppd in /lib/lp/model/...ppd
>
> where should i place my ppd file. cups directory does not have model directory.
>
> any hint??
>
> Thanks,

what is lpinfo -m saying?

lpadmin -p... -v.. -m <path/file-from-lpinfo>

should work

regards
Franz





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