Config file for printers?

Ripcord

Ripcord

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Does anyone know of a config file where I can go set up printers manually? Especially in Panther?

The new interface for connecting Windows-based printers really sucks, to put it gently. There's no way to specify a host manually, therefore if you're not part of a domain and the machine isn't locally browsable (i.e. reachable via broadcasts or a browsing host) then you can't even SELECT a machine to get a printer list. Apple was supposed to have completely rewritten a lot of their SMB client to improve things. Way to go Apple, with one huge exception, everything's a big step backwards. Great to see they're concentrating hard on the corporate market... :mad:
 
OS X, especially since Jaguar and CUPS, requires that the printer be present, either on network, or attached to a system, before a printing configuration can be set up.
Doesn't the web setup for Gimp-print suit your needs?
By Windows-based, are you referring to a printer attached to a Windows system or Windows-based print-server?
 
Open up your web browser to http://127.0.0.1:631. That is the web interface to the CUPS printing system. You can configure your printers that way. See http://www.cups.org for documentation/hints/etc.

Or, you could edit the cups configuration files by hand, they are under /etc/cups


Brian
 
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