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cups printing Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Hooking up a new printer to the server was the first real work that it has done and it was ridiculously easy to get cups working, local printing working, samba printer shares working, and windows clients printing to it. I think it took a total of 5 minutes to get that far. But then OSX clients… it took another 6 hours to figure out the following secret sauce:

  1. OSX asks for host and queue. It says, just leave the queue blank and I’ll figure out the default. Balderdash.
  2. If you foolishly enter the host and queue, like say host: 10.0.0.10 and queue: laserjet THE JOKE’S ON YOU! It really wants you to enter host: 10.0.0.10 and queue: printers/laserjet
  3. If you somehow figure out what it really wants at the user interface, you still are out of luck. You must now edit /etc/cups/printers.conf on the client to make sure the DeviceURI line looks like this:

DeviceURI ipp://10.0.0.10/printers/laserjet My OSX client was adding html entities and “ipp/” in the middle there.

But after you figure that out, it was EASY!

I guess Macs work fine if they are just talking to Macs and what business do I have trying to make them talk to anything else?