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Printing to CUPS on Leopard

16 November 2007 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments

They apparently changed the printer control stuff in Leopard and I couldn’t print after the upgrade. I think my old setup was browsing for the Linux box but Leopard doesn’t seem to want to do that. But then I couldn’t figure out how it wanted me to manually set it up either.

Here’s how I finally cracked the code: I knew the URL for my cups queue on the Linux box was something like:

ipp://192.168.0.1/printers/ml1740

But you don’t just type an ipp url into the new printer setup panel. You have to go into it, set “IPP”, then in the “Address” part say the hostname (”192.168.0.1″ for me) and then put the rest of the URL into the “Queue” part (”printers/ml1740″).

Then I was good to go.

4 Comments

  1. Catalin said on 16 Dec 2007 at 1:01 pm:

    Thanks for this info. However, it did not work for me. I’ve wrote 192.168.1.102 in the Address part and lp0 or printers/lp0 in the Queue part. (I have a HP LaserJet 4L on the lp0 port of the Linux box).

    What am I doing wrong?

    How cand I find out what’s my cups queue?

    Thanks

  2. matt said on 16 Dec 2007 at 1:31 pm:

    I am definitely not a printing expert. This looks like a good link on how to configure CUPS on the Linux side:

    http://www.debianadmin.com/setup-cups-common-unix-printing-system-server-and-client-in-debian.html

  3. martin said on 11 Jan 2008 at 3:24 pm:

    Hey Catalin, try putting the name of the printer as it appears in the cups queue. So for my Pixma MP500 connected to usb, it would be:

    printers/MP500

    instead of

    printers/usb1

  4. Marc said on 11 Feb 2008 at 4:51 pm:

    Apple deserves a smack upside the head for this one (99% Crap, indeed!). Thanks for the hints, my printer is now working.

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