[cups.general] Add printer using command line

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Tue Sep 18 02:40:32 PDT 2012


Hello,

On Sep 17 07:42 bart wrote (excerpt):

> I'm looking for a way to add printers to my server using command
> line methode. to be able to script printer installation
> So far I have find this instruction:
> lpadmin -p b0542 -E -v lpd://10.1.205.81/b0542
> What should I add to this line to set the driver : Generic text-only printer ?
> What should I add to this line to set the location of the printer?

Perhaps the section "Command-line Tools" in
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
and the general information in
http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Printer
(regardless that you don't use YaST)
might help you.

Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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