[cups] lpadmin new printer

Louis Garcia louisgtwo at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 20:38:05 PDT 2018


Yes that did the trick. Thanks.

On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 8:34 PM Alex Korobkin <korobkin+cups at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Try -m lsb/usr/HP/hp-officejet_6700.ppd.gz instead of -P ?
>
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 4:10 PM Louis Garcia <louisgtwo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to configure a network printer using lpadmin so I can put the
> > command in a kickstart file. gnome print installs it correctly but I
> would
> > like to have configured at install time. I need to use the hpcups driver
> > not hpijs.
> >
> > $lpinfo --make-and-model "HP Officejet 6700" -m
> > drv:///hp/hpijs.drv/hp-officejet_6700-hpijs.ppd HP Officejet 6700 hpijs,
> > 3.18.6
> > drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-officejet_6700.ppd HP Officejet 6700, hpcups
> 3.18.6
> > lsb/usr/HP/hp-officejet_6700.ppd.gz HP Officejet 6700, hpcups 3.18.6
> >
> > This is wrong, how do I specify the hpcups driver?
> > $lpadmin -p Officejet-6700 -E -v hp:/net/Officejet_6700?ip=172.16.0.2 -P
> > /usr/share/ppd/HP/hp_officejet_6700.ppd.gz
> >
> > I get errors in journald:
> > cupsd[1868]: [cups-driverd] Unable to open
> > "/usr/share/cups/model/hp/hpcups.drv/hp_officejet_6700.ppd" - No such
> file
> > or directory
> > cupsd[1868]: copy_model: empty PPD file
> > cupsd[1868]: [Client 63] Returning IPP server-error-internal-error for
> > CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer (ipp://localhost:631/printers/Officejet-6700)
> from
> > localhost
> >
> > How do I do this? Fedora 28
> > -Thanks
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> -Alex
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