New instances of printer on Jaunty

[Perry]

Le Saturday 14 November 2009 21:08:41 Bruce Marshall, vous avez écrit :
> On Saturday 14 November 2009, Perry wrote:
> > Jaunty's printer configuration has no option to add new instances of
> > local printer (or I failed to notice).
> > Google was of no help.
>
> You should be able to add instances in CUPS.   You don't mention how you
> are doing your configuration.
Not sure I understand your question. 
I was trying in the KMenu:
System/system configuration (no printer icon there)/Advanced/printer 
configuration icon... and there you have the option of adding a printer that 
forks in New network or New Class.
Man, it was so easy under Hardy, to add an instance through:
KMenu/System parameters/printers
>
> In your browser, use     localhost:631
>
> to get to the CUPS admin screens.
I tried that, failed to see an easy option to add an instance.
One can add a class (not sure that is what I want) or a printer, but must 
answer questions like "Material" or "URI of the material"


Perhaps the command "lpoptions" is required, I still have to figure out how to 
get it working
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from : http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html#5_7 I got:

> Printer Instances
>
> Besides setting options for each print queue, CUPS supports printer
> instances which allow you to define several different sets of options for
> each printer. You specify a printer instance using the slash (/) character:
>
>       lpoptions -p laserjet/duplex -o sides=two-sided-long-edge ENTER
>       lpoptions -p laserjet/legal -o media=Legal ENTER

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So I tried:
lpoptions -p Photosmart-C4200-series/FastDraftBW -o 
Quality=300FastDraftGrayscaleK

Where "Photosmart-C4200-series" was read from localhost:631
"FastDraftBW" is an arbitrary name
"Quality=300FastDraftGrayscaleK" was read from the output of 
lpoptions after having selected this resolution from the advanced tab in 
Kate's printing dialog and printing a page.

Now this FastDraft printer appears in Kate's printing dialog, but it doesn't 
print :O(

Any tips?

Thanks		Perry

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