Anyone had any luck with changing printer names?

[Welltokpete]

We moved offices and floors and printers have been relocated, users are confused that a printer named 3rd floor color is now located on the 7th floor.

Looking for an easy way to change the printer name on all systems.

[davidacland]

Not sure if you can change the name but you could remove and re-add the printer with the new name using lpadmin

[Welltokpete]

Thanks for the advice, I will give it a try.

[stevevalle]

From what I have read, there is no way to rename the printers. Your best bet is to create policies to remove and add the newly named printers.

[VT-Vincent]

You should be able to modify the printer with lpadmin - just supply the current queue name along with the -D "New Name" argument.

[luispalumbo]

What I usually do is create a new printer on my computer with the new name, then upload it to JSS Server, and create a policy to map the new printer and unmap the old one.

[sean]

If you didn't want to delete and re-add, you can stop the process, edit the conf file and then restart the process.

Unload:

launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cupsd.plist

Edit:

/etc/cups/printers.conf

Load:

launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cupsd.plist

You will need to re-open System Preferences to see the change.