Just incase anyone was interested, I did test that cups-filters 1.0.62 fixes 
this.  And, here's the bugzilla report.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167408

Devin

On Jun 10, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Devin A. Bougie <devin.bou...@cornell.edu> wrote:
> Our SL7 clients are using cups-browsed to discover printers shared from our 
> central SL7 cups server.  Most of our queues have underscores in their names, 
> and for some reason cups-browsed is changing the underscores to dashes.  This 
> breaks the queues for our SL7 clients.
> 
> When running cups-browsed --debug, for example, we see:
> ------
> cups-browsed: browse packet received from x.x.x.x
> cups-browsed: browsed queue name is w320_br_5470
> cups-browsed: Found CUPS queue: w320-br-5470 on host x.x.x.x.
> cups-browsed: Bonjour IDs: Service name: "Wilson 3rd Floor Black and White 
> Duplex", Service type: "", Domain: ""
> ------
> 
> Which then gives:
> ------
> lpstat -v w320-br-5470
> device for w320-br-5470: ipp://x.x.x.x:631/printers/w320-br-5470
> ------
> 
> This doesn't work, as the queue on the server is actually w320_br_5470.
> 
> When looking at the cups-filters changelog, I see:
> 
> ------
> CHANGES IN V1.0.62
> - cups-browsed: Allow underscore characters in print queue names.
> Thanks to Tim Waugh from Red Hat for the bug report (Bug #1241).
> ------
> 
> Any suggestions for working with remote queues names that contain underscores 
> in SL7 (cups-filters 1.0.35) would be greatly appreciated.

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