Export and Import Printer configuration

[Tim]

On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 17:31 -0400, TechList wrote:
> Right now there are two situation. One situation, is that I have 1 machine 
> that acts as a print server with the printer physically connected to it (e.g 
> via USB port). Say I have 5 other computers on the LAN, I have to configure 
> printer on each of those 5 computer to use the same print server, right ? How 
> do I avoid doing "system-config-printer" five times on those machine ?

As Aaron said, once a CUPS server is configured to print to that
printer, all other CUPS clients will use it automatically.  The only
configuration you should have to do, if you want and need to, is pick a
default printer if you have more than one available.

If you manually configure clients, you may disrupt the automatic
feature.  I haven't done manual configuration for a long time, but in
the past it'd stop it automatic printer finding, completely.  I think
that, more recently, it just adds manually configured printers to the
discovered ones.

Firewalling can get in the way, too.

> A second situation is that the printer sits on the network (e.g a printer with 
> ethernet and HP Jet Direct protocol). If I have multiple computer that tries 
> to use that printer, how do I set it up once and just copy the configuration 
> among those computers ?

If it's network printing using IPP, then it should be found just the
same as the CUPS server (automatically).   Ethernet is just a
connection, IPP is Internet Printing Protocol.  There are other network
printing protocols, and I don't know how the HP does its tricks.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686

Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I
read messages from the public lists.