Printer Kung Fu

[tempizzle]

Hi guys. This is my first post on here. I wanted to see if there is a good solution for what I'm trying to do.

My company has 14 different buildings, each with their owner printers.

Is there an elegant way to clear out a staff members printing system and then re-add all of the printers in one step?

[hkim]

Do each of the buildings have there own network segment?

[tempizzle]

Yes. We also setup distro-points at each building that sync with our Jamf master server.

[stevewood · Accepted solution]

If you are removing every printer from the system, effectively reseting the printing system, you can use the following brute force method in a before script to do this:

#!/bin/sh
# remove all printers
rm -rf /etc/cups/printers.conf

# restart cups
killall cupsd

exit 0

As far as adding printers back in, you can scope the printers in a policy by subnet. You'd probably need one policy per subnet. The policy would run that before script to kill the conf file, and then add the appropriate printers back to the systems.

HTH

[acdesigntech]

For good measure, I also issue an```
rm -r /etc/cups/ppds/*
```

[tempizzle]

Thanks guys!