> > lp|hp640c:\ > :four lines of site-specific stuff > > For me, that is enough for this response: > $ lpq > no entries > > As a last resort, if you have only one printer, you could (for the moment) hack > in ~/.bashrc: > > alias lpq='lpq -Php640c' > i will try this but on the client all you need to specify is /etc/cups/client.conf SerVername=blablabla