[cups] HPLIP: 2 drivers, 1 is problematic

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 06:49:48 PST 2015


>> I was wrong, it's not the printer driver, it's the CUPS connection
>> method.  If the connection is hp:/ then I have the problematic pause.
>> If the connection is usb:// then there is no pause.  Can I blacklist
>> hp:/ connections?
>
>
> Usually something like
> # chmod a-x /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp
> (perhaps plus a restart of the cupsd) should result that then
> # lpinfo -v
> does no longer list hp:/ connections which means that printer setup tools
> that work in compliance with CUPS also do no longer list  hp:/ connections.


Worked perfectly, thank you.

On Gentoo:
# chmod a-x /usr/libexec/cups/backend/hp

- Grant



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