How can I add multiple printers quickly ?

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Newsgroups:  gmane.comp.printing.cups.general
Date:        Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:12:41 +0200 (CEST)

> I need to add multiple printers (over 100) on a system quickly instead
> of going through web gui menu.  After adding the printers, I need to
> replicate the all printer information to another system.  Is there a way
> to do this as well, like programmatically or copying over the configs?

Read http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell in particular the section about "Command-line Tools".

Johannes Meixner

How can I add multiple printers quickly ?

> To replicate the printer information just copy the necessary files to
> the other system.

No! This is an efficient way which may lead to a broken CUPS system. To increase efficiency, copy the files while the other cupsd is running and for maximum efficiency also copy files from the spool directory ;-)

Please read http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell "General information on the command-line tools"

Johannes Meixner