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Subject: Re: Printers on /dev/ulpt*
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"Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek" <frans-jan@van-steenbeek.net> writes:

> Recently I have installed a printserver at my work to make use of all those 
> USB-printers in our network. Everything is running fine, thank you :)
>
> The printers are turned off every night, and they get there /dev-entry when 
> turned on again, as expected. Cups is serving them on the network, so Cups 
> looks for the appropriate /dev/ulpt*.
>
> I have had to teach my colleagues to turn the printers on in the right order. 
> When they are switched on in a different order, the wrong printer 
> gets /dev/ulpt0, another wrong printer gets /dev/ulpt1 etc. Is there a way to 
> get around this? Can I assign a /dev/ulpt*-entry to a certain device, even 
> when it is off? Or is there another workaround (in Cups perhaps)?

You should be able to do something with usbd.conf(5).
Maybe the easy way would be to link a "nickname" node
to the real node for a particular product/vendor ID.