On Mon 12 Feb 2018 at 15:52:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 12 February 2018 14:09:49 Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 12 Feb 2018 at 13:50:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > I have 2 physical printers, a bottom of the line B&W laser that > > > manages to do utility print jobs at 19 ppm, and a huge ink squirter > > > with more bells and whistles than you can shake a stick at. > > > > > > To do all of the job profiles this Brother MFC-J6920DW is capable > > > of, because among the various paper sizes it can handle is > > > borderless tabloid, aka 11x17. Its scanner can also handle that size > > > when the doc feeder is lifted and its laid directly on the glass, > > > but that is not germain to this problem. > > > > > > Do adequately describe the various jobs it can do, by selecting > > > the "printer" to send this job to, would need at least 8, individual > > > profiles setup in the cups menu's at localhost:631/printers. > > > > > > I have discussed this with Micheal Sweet, whom I've known longer > > > than linux has existed, and he assures me there is no such limit in > > > cups, never has been. Ever. > > > > > > So where is this limit, so that I can raise it to a dozen or so, and > > > get on with what I want to do? > > > > I assure you there is no limit of four print queues enforced on > > Debian. Never has been. Ever. > > There is one someplace. I just read thru everything in /etc/cups* without > finding a hint. Then I read thru all the brother install scripts, again > coming up blank. That was a 3 hour slog right there.
Let's be very clear about this: there is no "someplace". As delivered to you, the Debian printing system allows a user to set up as many print queues as he wants. There is no deviation from upstream in any of the packages in this regard. > I wonder if I can change its name, like from MFC-J69220DW to MFC-J6920DX > (or Z)but forcibly use the same driver? Got to be some way to get around > this. Time for a better mousetrap perhaps? Different queues have different names. It is not possible to have more than one queue with the same name. Different queues can have a device URI and PPD in common, however. -- Brian.