[cups] removing 3 printer limit from 1.5.4

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 27 January 2018 17:04:15 Michael Sweet 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.
>
Do you have any ideas on how to find the culprit, and hopefully disable 
its insistence that the limit is 2? I can't fund anything in /etc.cups 
that would do it.

> > 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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-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>