Want to configure printer from terminal?

[jonathonp]

I want to set up a printer with the command line only in fedora 12. I have been searching for a few days now.

Is their a way to avoid using the
system-config-printer gui? I searched through the fedora docs and their seems to be no information available. johnny

[scottro]

Yeah, it's pretty bad how Fedora, and worse, RedHat, seem to forget about the terminal in their documentation. Actually, cups seems to have forgotten as well.

The command is lpadmin. The man page is lacking somewhat. If it was a really generic laserjet, running on a network, at an address of 192.168.1.50, that you were going to call HPLJ
lpadmin -p HPLJ -E -v socket://192.168.1.50 -m laserjet.ppd

The ppd is given in relation to /usr/share/cups/model, if I remember correctly.

Anyway, if you google around for lpadmin, you can, possibly get the instructions when combining it with the man page.

[scottro]

Ah, here's the 1.1 manual which gives a good description of lpadmin

http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html

[jonathonp]

Thanks for the help scottro.