[cups] removing 3 printer limit from 1.5.4

[Michael Sweet]

Gene,

Sorry, the best advice I can give is to contact your Linux distributor about it.


> On Jan 27, 2018, at 7:40 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
> --
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> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer