Print & Fax displays printer description

[alanni]

At my business we have a CUPS server which serves over 200 printers across the studio to a combination of Mac and Linux machines. I've had our Macs configured to point to this server using /etc/cups/client.conf. In OS 10.4 and previous, the Print & Fax dialog (and all printer selection drop-downs) displays the print queue name as the printer name: however, I just discovered that in Leopard, it displays the CUPS printer description instead.

Is there a way to configure the Print & Fax dialog to display the CUPS print Q (instead of the printer description) as the name of the printer, like the previous behavior?

[Satcomer]

For CUPS I go the CUPS interface at http://127.0.0.1:631/.

[alanni]

127.0.0.1 is the *local* machine. I'm connecting to a CUPS interface on a server, across the network. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

I'm not sure that's important, though. Really I just want to change the Print & Fax interface to display the Print Queue name, rather than the Printer Description. This was the behavior in 10.4 and I'd like to revert to that.

[alanni]

Oh, snap. I just discovered that the same holds true for the local CUPS configuration - Satcomer, you were a big help after all. ;-)

So I went to http://localhost:631/admin to check out the local CUPS server (got the URL from http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html ) and added a new printer using that interface:

Name: dw090
Location: Outside room 136
Description: HP Laserjet 5600

Pointed it to socket://dw090.dreamworks.com:9100/
chose the driver, and added the printer. Printer added successfully.

And when I go to Preferences->Print & Fax, it shows 1 printer called
"HP Laserjet 5200" - when it should show the CUPS name, "dw090".

thx
anthony

[Satcomer]

Well to rename a printer just go to System Preferences->Print & Fax, highlight the printer you want to rename then click on 'Options & Supplies ...' and a drop down will let you rename the printer and give a description of location. I hope this will help.

[alanni]

That only works if it's a local printer: when the CUPS server is on a remote server, it reads the name from the server and overwrites any local changes you make.

I found that the same behavior exists for local CUPS printers, however. I went to http://localhost:631/admin and created a printer, using the same specs as on the server:

Name: dw090
Location: Outside room 136
Description: HP Laserjet 5600

Once added, the printer name in the Print & Fax dialog box is "HP Laserjet 5600", not "dw090" as it should be/as I would like it to be/as it was in 10.4.