[cups.general] printer not found and no manual option apparent

[Michael Sweet]

On Dec 19, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Helge Blischke wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
> [...]
>> 
>> If we can't get the "description" property from the device we won't show
>> it.
> 
> Does that mean that you only can set up printers which are really connected 
> to the CUPS server (somehow, i.e. SNMP reachable)?


No, and generally the CUPS server won't be reporting printers it is sharing via SNMP.

The description we are looking for is part of the MIB II set that a printer has to implement for us to see it in the first place...

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair