Re: removing printers
El 2012-08-17 a las 22:43 -0400, John Lindsay escribió:
(resending to the list)
> On 17/08/12 11:00 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:52:00 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 16/08/12 07:40 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a HP P1102w printer. I turned off the printer and computer while
>>>> away for several days. When I powered up the units, it wouldn't print.
>>>> Somehow I have managed to get the following printers on the print
>>>> manager
>>>>
>>>> original Hewlett-Packard_HP_Laserjet_Professional_P1102w one
>>>> I created in trying to fix things HP_Laserjet_Professional_P1102w
>>>> which did not work
>>>> and this one which I created by following the information on this URL
>>>>
>>>>> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html
>>>>>
>>>> It created HP_Laserjet_Professional_P1102w_2. This one works. How do I
>>>> get rid of the 1st two so that if my wife wants to print something she
>>>> is not confused as to which one to use?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Go to http://loclahost:631/ (or the IP address of your print server),
>>> select the printers tab and remove the ones you don't want.
>>>
>> I'd go that way.
>>
>> Another possibilities would be a/ using "hp-toolbox", select the desired
>> printer and remove it, b/ using the desktop environment default printer
>> applet (if any) or c/ by command line (e.g., "lpadmin -x printer").
> Thank you for your input. I did the localhost:631 this am and got rid of
> the extra printers. As usual, you are an amazing source of excellent
> information.
>
> John
Ah, good to see you solved it by using the CUPS web interface.
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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