[cups.general] Print via terminal without usblp

Yader Velásquez yajosev at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 09:37:37 PST 2012


Well in this case seems the usb printer is not detect it =/

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at acm.org> wrote:

> Yader Velásquez wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the answer, but I can't see the USB line
> > lpinfo -v | grep usb doesn't print anything.
> >
> > You should connect the printer to an usb port and power on the printer
> >> before executing lpinfo -v.
> >> The command then should then print a line like
> >> direct usb:/make/model?serial=foo "Make Model" "USB Printer" .
> >>
> >> Then execute the lpadmin command as
> >> lpadmin -p testing -v usb://Make/Model?serial=foo
> >> by inserting the Make, Model, and foo placeholders by the real strings
> >> listed. Make sure to represent special characters not allowed in URI
> >> strings
> >> by %hl where hl are the hex digits of the character code (for instace:
> >> represent a space char by %20 ).
> >>
> >> Helge
> >>
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>
> Provided the printer is powered on (and signals being online),
> lpinfo -v | grep usb
> should print something like
> direct usb://OKI%20DATA%20CORP/C3600?serial=AE8A060958
> (which is thr printer I'm using).
>
> Helge
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