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11-19-2013

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CUPs automation

A little background information:

We are a company that uses Sharp MFP devices for everyone to print on.
We have a lot of MAC BYOD devices.
All printing is done through a product called PaperCut which is ran on a Windows 2008 R2 server.
Sharp charges our company for each print job done in color (including grayscale), so we charge our agents (non employees) to print in color.

We have a process that the agents follow to install our Sharp printers on their MAC devices and the printer install uses a script like:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

#   FCT01_2ND_KITCHEN.command
#	Script to verify all print drivers have been previously installed, install the Papercut Client if needed, and install the printers for the selected office.
#   Created by James M on 10/12/12.


#
#	Clear all previous output on the terminal window.
#
	Clear
	
#
#	Make sure that the Sharp print drivers have been installed on the computer prior to letting the printers install
#
	if [ -e "/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/SHARP MX-5111N.PPD.gz" ]; then
		printf "You have properly installed the Sharp Print Drivers.  Now we need to verify the PaperCut Client Software is installed." \

    else
		clear
		printf "You must have the Sharp Print Drivers installed before installing the printers on your computer.  Please close this windows then return to the TuckerToolBox and install the drivers" \
		sleep 30
		exit
    fi


#
#	Make sure that the PCCLient has been installed on the computer prior to letting the printers install
#
	if [ -d /Applications/PCClient.app ]; then
		printf "You have properly installed the PaperCut Client.  Lets install your printers." /
    else
		clear
		printf "You must have the PaperCut Client installed before installing the printers on your computer.  Please close this windows then return to the intranet and install the PaperCut Client" \
		sleep 30
		exit
    fi


#
#   use LPADMIN to map the printer
#

Clear 


	/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p "FCT01_2ND_KITCHEN_BW" -E -v lpd://10.100.5.2/FCT01_2ND_KITCHEN_BW -P "/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/SHARP MX-M753N.PPD.gz" -D "FCT01_2ND_KITCHEN_MAC_BW"
	/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p "FCT01_2ND_KITCHEN_WHITE" -E -v lpd://10.100.5.2/FCT01_2ND_KITCHEN_WHITE -P "/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/SHARP MX-5111N.PPD.gz" -D "FCT01_2ND_KITCHEN_MAC_COLOR"


Clear

exit

The issue is that most users have it setup to remember last settings on their printers, thus if they print color, then black and white, it still prints in color. The agents are getting charged for what should be black and white. Also all black and white jobs are printing in grayscale not black and white.

We can manually fix this by initiating CUPs and then making changes to CUPs for the correct print queues, but we have hundreds of queues and it could take us MONTHS to change everyone, and if they uninstall and reinstall the printers from the intranet they are back to printing color for free and getting us charged for black and white.

What is the process to add CUPs commands to the printer install or what other way can be tried to fix these issues.

Sorry if this is a n00b question, but I am NOT a Unix user in any way shape or form.

jdmorecraft

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cancel(1)																 cancel(1)

NAME

       cancel - cancel print request

SYNOPSIS

       cancel [ request-ID...] [destination...]

       cancel -u user... [destination...]

       The cancel utility cancels print requests. There are two forms of the cancel command.

       The first form of cancel has two optional arguments: print requests (request-ID) and destinations (destination). Specifying request-ID with
       destination cancels request-ID on destination. Specifying only the destination cancels the current print request on destination. If  desti-
       nation is not specified, cancel cancels the requested print request on all destinations.

       The second form of cancel cancels a user's print requests on specific destinations.

       Users  can  only  cancel  print	requests associated with their username. By default, users can only cancel print requests on the host from
       which the print request was submitted. If a super-user has set user-equivalence=true in /etc/printers.conf on the print server,	users  can
       cancel  print  requests	associated with their username on any host. Super-users can cancel print requests on the host from which the print
       request was submitted. Superusers can also cancel print requests from the print server.

       The print client commands locate destination information using the printers database in the  name  service  switch.  See  nsswitch.conf(4),
       printers(4), and printers.conf(4) for details.

       The following options are supported:

       -u user	       The name of the user for which print requests are to be cancelled. Specify user as a username.

       The following operands are supported:

       destination     The  destination  on which the print requests are to be canceled. destination is the name of a printer or class of printers
		       (see lpadmin(1M)). If destination is not specified, cancel cancels the requested print request on all destinations. Specify
		       destination  using atomic or POSIX-style (server:destination), names. See  for information regarding using POSIX-style des-
		       tination names with cancel. See standards(5) for information regarding POSIX.

       request-ID      The print request to be canceled. Specify request-ID using LP-style request IDs (destination-number).

       user	       The name of the user for which the print requests are to be cancelled. Specify user as a username.

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	       Successful completion.

       non-zero        An error occurred.

       /var/spool/print/*      LP print queue.

       $HOME/.printers	       User-configurable printer database.

       /etc/printers.conf      System printer configuration database.

       printers.conf.byname    NIS version of /etc/printers.conf.

       printers.org_dir        NIS+ version of /etc/printers.conf.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWpcu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       lp(1), lpq(1B), lpr(1B), lprm(1B), lpstat(1), lpadmin( 1M), nsswitch.conf(4), printers(4), printers.conf(4), attributes(5), standards(5)

       POSIX-style destination names (server:destination) are treated as print requests if destination has the same format as an LP-style request-
       ID. See standards(5).

       Some  print  servers send cancelation notification to job owners when their print jobs have been cancelled. This notification usually comes
       in the form of an email message. Cancelation notices cannot be disabled on a Solaris server.

								    23 Feb 2005 							 cancel(1)