[cups.general] local printer and client.conf

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

an addendum only FYI:

On Feb 2 09:54 Johannes Meixner wrote (excerpt):
> For local connected USB printers you have to configure them
> separately on every machine in any case (regardless of stuff
> like client.conf) because the device URI of USB printers
> looks like
>  usb://ACME/FunPrinter%201000?serial=A1B2C3
> i.e. there is the serial number of the particular
> USB printer device included, see "The Backends" at
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
>
> The serial number is needed so that the backend is able
> to distinguish between two same USB printer models which
> are connected to the same machine.
> Think about two same USB printer models but only one of them
> has a duplex unit so that it is crucial to send print jobs
> which should print out in duplex mode to the exact right
> USB printer device.
>
> Because of the serial number you cannot know a USB printer
> device URI in advance so that you cannot set up a print queue
> for a USB printer with some kind of predefined device URI.
>
> To set up a USB printer, you must connect the particular USB
> printer device to the machine so that the backend can autodetect
> its right particular device URI and then you must use this
> exact device URI to set up the print queue for this particular
> USB printer device, see "How to set up a print queue in full
> compliance with CUPS" at
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell

To set up a queue an advance for a single USB printer which
is not yet connected at that time, you may have a look at
"A careless backend for a single USB printer" at
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Backends_to_Print_with_CUPS
and note the "drawback" therein.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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