[Discuss] printer question

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:24:04 -0400
dan moylan <jdm at moylan.us> wrote:

> the envy is my default printer and works fine, the
> photosmart is an old printer i once used.  /etc/hosts has
> the envy listing, i can't figure out why lprm still thinks
> the photosmart is relevant.  not that it's a problem, but
> i'm just curious.  any thoughts?

lpstat and friends don't care much about /etc/hosts.
They (assuming you are using OpenPrinting) care about
what you have in /etc/cups/printers.conf and friends.

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