Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 20 Jun 2022, at 23:50, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon 20 Jun 2022, at 23:31, Gareth Evans wrote: >> On Mon 20 Jun 2022, at 17:34, The Wanderer wrote: >>> On 2022-06-20 at 12:01, Brian wrote: >>> On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 09:28:30 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-06-20 at 08:5

Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 20 Jun 2022, at 23:31, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon 20 Jun 2022, at 17:34, The Wanderer wrote: >> On 2022-06-20 at 12:01, Brian wrote: >> >>> On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 09:28:30 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >>> On 2022-06-20 at 08:59, Brian wrote: >> > The ability to print to an IPP pri

Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 20 Jun 2022, at 17:34, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-06-20 at 12:01, Brian wrote: > >> On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 09:28:30 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >> >>> On 2022-06-20 at 08:59, Brian wrote: > The ability to print to an IPP printer involves discovering its URI. CUPS gets the URI vi

Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 19:49:18 +0100, Brian wrote: Please forget about this mai. I pressed the wrong key. Never done that before! > On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 12:34:19 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > > On 2022-06-20 at 12:01, Brian wrote: > > > > > "...once the URIis known"? What mechaism does that?

Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 12:34:19 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-06-20 at 12:01, Brian wrote: > > > "...once the URIis known"? What mechaism does that? Incidentally, a > > URI is required to query a printer for its attributes. > > Any of a number of mechanisms. > > CUPS could run discovery on

Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-06-20 at 12:01, Brian wrote: > On Mon 20 Jun 2022 at 09:28:30 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2022-06-20 at 08:59, Brian wrote: >>> The ability to print to an IPP printer involves discovering its >>> URI. CUPS gets the URI via avahi-daemon whether it is an >>> on-demand or manual queu

Re: CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread Brian
ways happen automatically in all cases. > > >> I can certainly see it as being reasonable to want to be able to > >> have CUPS perform printer discovery *on request*, and manually > >> choose which of the discovered printers to add to the list of ones > >> that will

CUPS and available-printers-list management (was Re: non installed printer can not be removed)

2022-06-20 Thread The Wanderer
ry *automatically* and *automatically* add >> every discovered printer to that list. (I don't know with any >> confidence whether CUPS does the latter; I don't run it in enough >> environments with enough different available printers to have been >> able to make a

Re: Available printers

2005-06-22 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:50:07 +0200, David A. Cobb wrote: > When my wife tries to print from her desktop, the choices of printer are > * scx5400_5400@:64 > * xp_ps_spooldir_HOME_xprint ... @:64 > * xp_pdf_spooldir_HOME_xprint ...@:64 > * Postscript/scx5300_5400 > And everything she tries to print co

Available printers

2005-06-21 Thread David A. Cobb
Debian kernel-2.4.29-f3, mostly sarge, some sid. Gnome Desktop 2.8.3 Cups: 1.0.23-10 mozilla-firefox browser, 2 versions, debian 1.0.2 for everybody but myself Epson Color Stylus CX5400 printer When I print from my own desktop, the choices of printer offered by the browser's print dialog are: