[cups-devel] Saving all properties of a CUPS queue

[Michael Sweet]

Till,

You can do a Get-Printer-Attributes (IPP_OP_GET_PRINTER_ATTRIBUTES) request, then look at the xxx-default and other attribute values.


> On Sep 30, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> cups-browsed creates local print queues for IPP printers appearing in the network, either remote shared CUPS queues or physical IPP network printers. These queues are not set up permanently, but removed again if the remote printer disappears (printer or remote server disconnected or turned off, local machine disconnected from network, ...) or cups-browsed is shut down.
> 
> The problem is now that if a user is changing setting on these queues, the settings get lost when cups-browsed removes the queues due to the above-mentioned reasons. Therefore I want to backup ALL settings of the print queue before I remove it.
> 
> I know how to save and restore the PPD options for a queue for a physical IPP printer with auto-generated PPD (IPP Everywhere) but how do I handle non-PPD options, like copies, number-up, description, location, media, ...? How do I read out the FULL set of these options from an existing print queue? And how do I apply them to a newly created queue so that the new queue is an exact clone of the old one?
> 
>   Till
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair