fast way to add large number of printers to RH & CUPS

[Rick Garland]

Hi all:

Going to have hundreds (if not thousands) of printers that will need to be added to RH Linux 3.0 AS. These servers will be running CUPS for printing.

How can I add a large number of printers to CUPS in a fast manner?

[Stuart Browne · Accepted solution]

Well the web interface sucks for that, but you can add printers quickly and easily using the 'lpadmin' command.

It's a little different from LPR/LPD based 'lpadmin' that HP-UX and older Linux boxes use, but not that different.

lpadmin -p -v -P

can be 'socket://address.com:port/' as well as things like 'lpd://address.com:port/' etc. etc..

[Rick Garland]

Many thanks!