I am trying to send my print jobs to a standard lpd print spooler on a machine yellow.srv.cs.cmu.edu to forward to the printer 'agate'. This worked a couple of months ago, but after upgrading cups, it works no longer. The following is an equivalent RedHat printcap entry: agate|Agate (HP LaserJet 5SI MX) WeH 5130:\ :ty=HP LaserJet 5SI MX:\ :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/agate:\ :sc:\ :mx#0:sf:sb:pn:\ :lp=:rm=yellow.srv.cs.cmu.edu:rp=agate: how can I get printing to work again? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
could you get it working?
With /etc/cups/printers.conf as follows, printing seems to work. Navigating localhost:631 to get this generated was non-obvious at least for several versions of CUPS. I believe it's better now. it'd be nice if the CUPS config files would be smart enough so that when it generates a printer location like "DeviceURI ipp://lpd://magenta.srv.cs.cmu.edu/spectrum/" It would generate loud errors instead of quietly dying. # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23 # Written by cupsd on Fri 27 May 2005 04:44:50 PM EDT <Printer Agate> Info HP LaserJet 5SI MX Location DeviceURI lpd://yellow.srv.cs.cmu.edu/agate State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer>
