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10.3: Print to a remote CUPS server
Authored by: fenner on Jan 19, '04 11:54:39AM
In the Printer Setup Utility, an option-click on "Add" gets you an advanced selection in the printing protocol list; this at least lets you specify the full device URI. However, even this advanced interface doesn't seem to permit specifying that the printer is raw. If you want to do this from the command line, try
lpstat -t
to get a list of internal printer names (these are what show up on the CUPS GUI but have nothing to do with what Printer Setup Utility or the print panel display), and
lpoptions -p printername -o raw
to set up raw mode on the printer. To remove the raw attribute, use
lpoptions -p printername -r raw


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10.3: Print to a remote CUPS server
Authored by: js on Jan 19, '04 11:56:51AM

You don't have to change to raw. This problem is simply overestimated.



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10.3: Print to a remote CUPS server
Authored by: fenner on Jan 19, '04 01:52:10PM

I have to admit that I've got several printers configured to spool to a remote CUPS server and have never had the problem from this hint. I did want to share the option-click on add printer button, since afaik that's not documented anywhere and is nicer if you don't want to go through the cups web interface.



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10.5: Print to a remote CUPS server --- old tricks no longer work
Authored by: rpgoldman on Feb 24, '08 10:22:48AM

Alas and alack, on OS X 10.5, there is no option-click when adding a printer, and no access to any advanced menu item.

So for newer Macs, this trick won't work. I find that the hand-munging of CUPS through the CUPS web interface won't, either. I was able to add a printer that way, and can print to it through the command line, but the native mac interfaces don't see the printer queue I added by hand. It doesn't show up in the printer System preferences tool, either, although one can see it through the cups web interface.

This gives me only a very crippled printing facility. :-(



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10.5: Print to a remote CUPS server --- old tricks no longer work
Authored by: dsomar on Mar 06, '08 04:22:34PM
I'm dealing with a Leopard upgrade and learned that CUPS needs to be re-enabled to display shared printers in Leopard. There's a quick command :

cupsctl BrowseRemoteProtocols=cups

Take a look at http://mcdevzone.com/2007/10/28/printer-fix-for-leopard/

Hope this helps,
D

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