Category: Cups (Common UNIX Printing System)
Added: 30th of October 2021
Updated On: 29th of November 2021
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There are a few options you can use to check the status of your printers in Linux.
You can use the printers option in your desktop environment or by accessing CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) through your webbrowser at the following URL http://127.0.0.1:631,
Another way is to use the lpstat and lpr commands in the terminal. The longer you use Linux, the more you will turn to using the terminal for probing of hardware and other basic operations.
To check what printers are in your network enter the following command