Remove all printers from a system

[Craig A. Sharp]

I need to remove all the printers on one of my servers and start out fresh by restoring the spooler from another system. I can do the restore of the spooler but I do not know how to remove all the printer at one time.

Thanks,

Craig

[Patrick Wallek]

Probably the easiest way is to use SAM.

Go into SAM -> Printers and Plotters -> LP Spooler -> Printers and Plotters

Once there just go down the list and select every printer on the list. If you are in the GUI, you must hold down the CTRL key as you click each printer. If you are in the TUI then you can just scroll with the arrows and hit the space bar to select each printer.

Once all are selected go up to the Actions menu and select Remove. It will then prompt you asking if you are sure you want to remove each printer. Say yes and each will be removed.

[Helen French · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Two options:

1) SAM -> Printer configuration ( select all printers and remove it)

2) lpadmin -xprinter_name

HTH,
Shiju

[Mark Greene_1]

for PRINTER in `lpstat -a |cut -d" " -f1`; do
lpadmin -x $PRINTER
done

HTH
mark

[S.K. Chan]

Try this ..

# for P in `lpstat|grep \^printer|awk '{print $4}'`
> do
> lpadmin -x$P
> done

[Craig A. Sharp]

Got it....Here is my solution:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

open (PRINTERS, "printers.out") || die "$!";

@printers = ;

foreach (@printers) {

system "lpadmin -x$_";

};

printers.out is a list of the printers extracted from the /etc/lp directory.

Thanks for your help.

Craig