On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 15:07:44 -0500
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> I installed CUPS a part of the standard istall long ago.
> I had no trouble configuring it back the to talk sweet to me printer.
> Worked fine. Bu tnow it doesn't.
>
> The printer seems to hae changed its IP number.
> Now I can tell it explicitly what IP numder to use by entering stuff
> in its physical control panel. So all I should have to do is to set
> its IP number to whatever CUPS (now unsuccessfuly) uses to talk to
> it.
>
> What I don't know is how to get CUPS to tell me what IP number it
> currently thinks belongs to the printer.
>
> There should be some simple way of asking CUPS to tell me this.

Perhaps it works with either
# grep Location /etc/cups/printers.conf
or
# grep DeviceURI /etc/cups/printers.conf
plus some intelligent parsing.

Ralph.