pre-defining printers for mac OS X client machines

[jeffchambers]

I am hoping that someone can help me. I have over 60 mac os 10.3 clients on my network that need to all have their printers changed. I originally manually setup them up in the gui, but now I need to completely re-setup them. All the print drivers are already installed. I have apple remote desktop that I use to push down system updates and other things. What files do I need to replace in order for the printers to be changed in the print center on all the machines?

[andrina]

there’s also /usr/sbin/lpadmin

as an example – this is similar to something I use for pushing out new printers:

/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p 192.168.1.30 -E -v lpd://192.168.1.30 -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/hp\ LaserJet\ 2300.gz -D B&W_Laser

The above shows setting up an HP LaserJet 2300 with IP printing where the printer type is LPD/LPR and giving it a custom name of B&W_Laser.

You can of course run this by SSH-ing into the machine, or using “Send UNIX Command” from ARD2

[benfeea1]

So how do you use lpadmin to modify the “Installable Options” of a printer?

For instance, a printer with extra paper trays and upgraded RAM.

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