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NAME | DESCRIPTION | NOTES | SEE ALSO | COPYRIGHT | COLOPHON 

printers.conf(5)               OpenPrinting              printers.conf(5)

NAME         top

       printers.conf - printer configuration file for cups

DESCRIPTION         top

       The printers.conf file defines the local printers that are
       available. It is normally located in the /etc/cups directory and
       is maintained by the cupsd(8) program. This file is not intended
       to be edited or managed manually.

NOTES         top

       The name, ___location, and format of this file are an implementation
       detail that will change in future releases of CUPS.

SEE ALSO         top

       classes.conf(5), cups-files.conf(5), cupsd(8), cupsd.conf(5),
       mime.convs(5), mime.types(5), subscriptions.conf(5), CUPS Online
       Help (http://localhost:631/help)

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 2020-2024 by OpenPrinting.

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the CUPS (a standards-based, open source
       printing system) project.  Information about the project can be
       found at ⟨https://github.com/openprinting/cups⟩.  If you have a
       bug report for this manual page, see
       ⟨https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues⟩.  This page was
       obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/openprinting/cups⟩ on 2025-02-02.  (At that
       time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
       repository was 2025-01-27.)  If you discover any rendering
       problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
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       corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
       (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       [email protected]

2021-02-28                         CUPS                  printers.conf(5)

Pages that refer to this page: classes.conf(5),  cupsd.conf(5),  cups-files.conf(5),  subscriptions.conf(5),  cupsd(8)

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