Dr Andrew Scott G7VAV

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School of Computing
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SYSTEM-CONFIG-PRIN

Section: Man pages (1)
Updated: 28 Nov 2008
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NAME

system-config-printer - configure a CUPS server

SYNOPSIS

system-config-printer [[--print-test-page=printer] | [--debug]]

DESCRIPTION

system-config-printer

configures a CUPS server. It uses the CUPS API (bound to Python with pycups) to do this. The communication with the server is performed using IPP. As a result, it is equally able to configure a remote CUPS server as a local one.

OPTIONS

--help

: Display a short usage message.

--print-test-page=printer

: Show the named printer on start-up and print a test page to it.

--debug

: Enable debugging output.

AUTHOR

Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

: Author.

for client (none)

http://www.andrew-scott.uk/

Andrew Scott

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