CUPS and IPPrinters

[Damadomu]

Hi,
thank you!
I will let you know soon!

Ciao, Damadomu.

> On 21/02/2011 11:18, Damadomu wrote:
> > I have two IPprinters connected to the LAN (192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.101,=
>  both with netmask 255.255.255.0) and I need to manage them via CUPS (using=
>  a Linux box, perhaps "Fedora 14" or "openSuSE 11.3") to catch their errors=
>  and empty the corresponding queue if needed.
> >
> > Does anybody have an idea on how to do this?
> > I can change the IP of the printers and, if necessary, create a multi-IP =
> Linux box, so the print requests can be intercepted by CUPS... and then?
>
> By default they will be LPD (515/tcp) or Jetdirect (9100/tcp) servers.
> You want to try the lpd:// or socket:// backends.
>
> For example, setup the one as lpadmin -p TEST -v
> socket://192.168.1.100:9100/ and test using date | lpr -PTEST.  Then see
> if it prints the date.
>
> If it doesn't work, try lpadmin -p TEST -v lpd://192.168.1.100/ and try
> again.
>
> To print non-text (PDF, etc.) look for the right printer driver, or try
> the GUI printer administration tool and set it as a socket:// printer.
>
> I hope that helps,
> Berend