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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] printer config
  • Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:36:47 -0700 (PDT)

alvaro said:
> i installed cups and ghostscript, then went to the cups documentation
> page. But i still dont know how to tell cups where the network printer
> is!. In the docs it tells to execute lpoptions -d <printer-address>,
> but it doesn seem to work.. what am i missing?
>
> alvaro

Alvaro,

Use the CUPS web-based interface, it's on your localhost port 631. And
for the address, it's asking for something like
"ipp://192.168.0.254/ipp/port1" or "smb://SweetPotato/HP840C", etc. The
web interface has a listing (and examples) of these options when you go to
add the printer.

-One of Three
a.k.a. sandalle

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