It seems that CUPS classes are exactly the opposite of what I want.


Classes let you access multiple physical printers by a single name (like a printer pool).

I need to access a single printer by multiple names.


- Dan


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From: Platform Independent Linux List! [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Nessl [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 5:50 PM
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Subject: Re: CUPS printer aliases?

CUPS handles this in more of a SysV style: Create one printer for each physical printer, then create a printer class for each alias, where each class contains a single member that is a previously-defined physical printer name.  (This also lets you do cool things like set different option defaults per alias name.)

-david

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Dan Stoner <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hello,

I am migrating an old server with lp printers to a new server with CUPS.

On old server, the /etc/printcap file specified various aliases that could be used for the same printer.  For example:

# first printer
lp|hp3ps|lp0|ps|ps0|ps3|txt3:\

# second printer
lp1|ps1:\

# third printer....


Those aliases are used heavily by various production scripts and commands such as 'enscript' and 'lp'.


On the new server I have confirmed that enscript and lp are able to use a CUPS printer by name such as HP8150DN.

 #  enscript -dHP8150DN test.txt



Does CUPS have a way to alias multiple printer names onto the same printer?


Thanks,

Dan Stoner
IT Senior
Children's Oncology Group
University of Florida
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