[cups] removing 3 printer limit from 1.5.4

[Lauren Dungan]

Please remove me

Lauren Niceley

> On Jan 27, 2018, at 4:04 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Gene,
> 
> CUPS has no three printer limit - in fact there are sites with 10s of thousands of printers, and we regularly run our automated test suite against 10,000 simulated printers.
> 
> 
>> On Jan 26, 2018, at 4:02 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Greetings;
>> 
>> I have a Brother MFC-J6920DW, which is basically a letter sized mechanism 
>> turned sideways so you can feed it tabloid paper one sheet at a time.
>> 
>> It also has both flatbed 11x17 scanning ability, plus an adf for more 
>> normal sized papers. No duplexing available on the scanner but the rest 
>> of it, except for the tabloid setting, can do full duplex.  The scanner 
>> part works great with sane.
>> 
>> Because this printer has so many interlocking features, its not possible 
>> to setup a ppd to use near all of its features because of the limitation 
>> of 3 printers apparently imposed by cups, as I also have a Brother 
>> HL-2140 B&W laser, that leaves me only able to setup 2 profiles for the 
>> MFC-J6920DW.
>> 
>> I need to be able to define at least 4, maybe 5 different capability 
>> profiles so that I can send the job to the correct profile for the 
>> instant job. For instance, I need a totally different color profile 
>> depending on the paper in the selected tray, it has 2, one is thick 
>> double sided glossy photo on both sides, and tray 2 is normally loaded 
>> with the usual 24 lb duplex paper.
>> 
>> Adding a printer simply replaces one that has already been configured, 
>> and destroys the settings it had.
>> 
>> How can I enable the creation of these other, much needed profiles, or 
>> ppd's. That directory btw is empty as they are all running on brother 
>> drivers with cups-wrappers which are located in the /opt/Brother stuff 
>> directory.
>> 
>> Help please...
>> 
>> -- 
>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>> --
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