Creating Printer Package

[oopsydaisy]

My company only has use of Composer at this time. I use it to make software packages and it's great. We are about to start rolling out 10.7, but I want there to be a base image without printers because we have multiple locations we support. What I'd like is to create a package for each location, based on the printers they will need. I'd like to install the drivers and add the printers and have Composer make a package from that. I've tried the normal snapshot as well as the FSEvents method, but neither one adds the printer queues in System Prefs(the drivers get installed). I even took out /etc/cups/printers.conf from the exclusion list, but still no go. What am I missing? Thanks in advance

[oopsydaisy · Accepted solution]

Apparently, this is now working with /etc/cups/printers.conf taken out of the exclusion list. Not sure why it didn't work before, but glad it's working now

[msemertzides]

Did this cause any other issues for you? Do you know why it would be on the exclusion list?

[donmontalvo]

Likely because "snapshots" won't help you if changes are made to existing files. If you take a snapshot of a printer installation, it would grab /etc/cups/printers.conf file. So you put that in your package and BAM!!! you've just whacked all the other printers installed on the Mac.

Snapshots ? a good way to deploy software (sorry Composer, not a fan).

If the printer vendor provides a proper PKG/MPKG for the drivers, wrap it along with a postflight script that uses lpadmin to add the printer and configure it as required.

Don

[jared_f]

I am not sure if this thread is active anymore but, I thought I would give it a try. I have composer (not the casper suite) and was wondering how to make printer packages. I am very technical I just really don't do anything on this side. Could anyone provide me with a step by step guide or a resource?

Thanks for the help,
Jared :)