A short list of helpful commands for printers’ control.<\/p>\n
A short list of helpful commands for printers’ control. lpq – shows the default system printer (if set) and its printing queue; lpstat -a – shows all printers, available in the system, their ‘working since’ time and type of connection (USB\/local network, etc); lpstat -p – shows all printers, available in the system, their ‘working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,111,59],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cups","tag-lp","tag-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexeyka.zantsev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexeyka.zantsev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexeyka.zantsev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexeyka.zantsev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexeyka.zantsev.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alexeyka.zantsev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/alexeyka.zantsev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexeyka.zantsev.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexeyka.zantsev.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexeyka.zantsev.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}lpq<\/code> – shows the default system printer (if set) and its printing queue;
\nlpstat -a<\/code> – shows all printers, available in the system, their ‘working since’ time and type of connection (USB\/local network, etc);<\/p>\nlpstat -p<\/code> – shows all printers, available in the system, their ‘working since’ time and type of connection (USB\/local network, etc);
\nlpstat -v<\/code> – shows all printers, available in the system, their ‘working since’ time and type of connection (USB\/local network, etc);<\/p>\nlpadmin -d printer_name<\/code> – set the printer_name as default system printer;
\nlpadmin -x printer_name<\/code> – deletes printer_name printer from the system;
\ncupsenable printer_name<\/code> – turns the printer_name printer on on the OS level;
\ncupsdisable printer_name<\/code> – turns the printer_name printer off;<\/p>\ncupsctl --share-printers<\/code> – shares all printers in the system, making them available across the network; and run the next command =>
\ncupsctl 'BrowseLocalProtocols=\"all\"'<\/code> – use all protocols of network printing. If you use Linux machines only (both printing server and client), it’s better to type “ipp” instead of “all”. IPP means Internet Printing Protocol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"