Reset print system!

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Reset print system!

Any one know how to reset os x 10.5.... print system from terminal. I need to add a print system reset to an apple script I have created that reinstall all office printers on a users machine. As printing is one of our biggest time wasting support issues I want to be able to completely wipe the print system and then my script reinstalls all the printers from scratch with fresh drivers and presets.

Any ideas?

Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on May 11, 2009 7:14 AM

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Answer 1

Barney-15E

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May 11, 2009 7:31 AM in response to skeates

Try [this|http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-75839.html]. I found it by googling "cups reset command line."

CUPS is the Common Unix Printing System which Mac OS X uses. For documentation go to http://localhost:631.

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skeates Author

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May 11, 2009 8:18 AM in response to Barney-15E

Yeah that is about the only post about with any info in that I have found. Although the first does not seem to have anything of use in it to me. The second reply refers to the printer setup utility which no longer exists and an application in OS X 10.5.... it has all been integrated into the system preferences so I can't interact with it through applescript.

I have looked through the cups documentation before, but can not seem to find any info I guess I will have to have another look. I was hoping for a reply from apple with some info on this.

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Answer 3

May 11, 2009 9:04 AM in response to skeates

You stop cups and then start it again...

sudo killall cupsd
sudo cupsd

... and that's it. Same goes for other UNIXes.

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skeates Author

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May 11, 2009 9:15 AM in response to J D McIninch

That stops and starts cups, but does not reset it as in the reset print system which wipes all the printers, presets and printer setting from the system effectively returning it to a state where it would have been before any printer installs on the system.

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Answer 5

May 12, 2009 5:46 AM in response to skeates

In which case:

lpstat -p | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs -I{} lpadmin -x {}

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skeates Author

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May 14, 2009 2:47 AM in response to J D McIninch

Thanks.

That works a treat.

much appreciated.

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