How to recover printers on fresh install

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Tue Jun 1 17:20:56 UTC 2010


On 06/01/2010 04:25 AM, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 21:35 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> > That printers.conf file plus the contents of the /etc/cups/ppd directory
>> > may be all you need to copy, but that assumes the old ppd files
>> > and wot-not are compatible, your mileage may vary with that :-).
>
> Yes, that's all you need; and /etc/cups/classes.conf if you had any
> classes defined.  Don't forget to install whichever drivers you were
> using previously.
> 


  Thank you ... very helpful.


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