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Want to configure printer from terminal?

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I want to set up a printer with the command line only in fedora 12. I have been searching for a few days now. Is their a way to avoid using the system-config-printer gui? I searched through the fedora docs and their seems to be no information available. johnny (HowTos)

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