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Web based CUPS printer management
Authored by: mclbruce on Oct 21, '02 12:55:05PM

If you don't want to use the command line, you can add printers via the web. From the manual:

Managing Printers from the Web The Web interface is located at:
http://localhost:631/admin
From there you can perform all printer management tasks with a few simple mouse clicks.

You may have to enable port 631 in your firewall in System Preferences: Sharing. Note that this web interface works with ghostscript and GIMP-Print mentioned in previous hints

I'm going to add a link to the GIMP-Print and ghostscript installers here to be complete. These are standard OS X installers, no terminal use is necessary to run them.

http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3

This subject was covered in Phil Shiller's talk at Seybold SF recently. It's a pretty good overview:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/seybold_02/



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CUPS printer management using Print Center
Authored by: dannydv on Oct 22, '02 04:30:42AM

There is even a third way of adding a non-postscript printer to your list of printers
Launch the Print Center and ask for the printer list.
While pressing the <alt> key click add, to add a printer.

You will get the same popup-menu as without the <alt>, except with 1 little item extra at the bottom, 'advanced'.
Choose 'advanced' and way you go, you get the same parameters as with the web based interface.



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