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grant123
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 Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 1:14 am Post subject: cups.conf & printers.conf = print? |
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| Should copying cups.conf and printers.conf generally be sufficient for moving a working printer configuration from one computer to another? |
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cwr
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No. Looking at /etc/cups, I have:
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├── client.conf
├── client.conf.org
├── cupsd.conf
├── cupsd.conf.default
├── cupsd.conf.org
├── interfaces
├── ppd
│ ├── canonmg5200.ppd
│ ├── custom
│ │ ├── HP-DeskJet_310-cdj550.ppd
│ │ ├── HP-DeskJet_310-pcl3.ppd.3
│ │ ├── HP-DeskJet_310-pcl3.ppd.4
│ │ ├── MP630-series.ppd
│ │ └── Samsung-ML-2250-gdi.ppd
│ ├── DeskA4-310.ppd
│ ├── DeskA5-310.ppd
│ ├── DeskJet310.ppd
│ ├── MP630-series.ppd
│ ├── Pixma_MG5250.ppd
│ └── Samsung2251N.ppd
├── printers.conf
├── printers.conf.org
├── snmp.conf
├── snmp.conf.org
├── ssl [error opening dir]
└── subscriptions.conf
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That's an accumulation of ten year's printers, but you get the idea.
Will |
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grant123
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| Thanks, which program draws that tree? |
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SirRobin2318
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I'll guess tree -A. |
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cwr
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And there's more - I had a vague recollection of copying an install from Ubuntu:
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Mon Aug 16 09:19:28 BST 2010
Emerged cnijfilter with the mp630 flag on Gentoo (the cnijtools flag needs
the obsolete libxml library), but the printer didn't respond.
Installed Canon MP630 drivers from .deb files on Ubuntu, and then copied the
/usr/share/ppd directory, the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and printers.conf, and the
/etc/cups/ppd/MP630-series.ppd files across to Gentoo (some of these files
appear to be binary drivers). Printing from Gentoo then worked.
Note that USB printers have to be attached and powered up before the system
is booted, at least for the install.
There are two extra directories in Ubuntu, /usr/share/cngpijmonmp630 and
/usr/share/printuimp630; they seem to be part of cnijtools, but were copied
across anyway.
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So some printers can get pretty weird.
Will
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