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Is there a short way to purge all printer configurations?

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An Ubuntu 14.04 which I have been maintaining has a lot of non-working printer configurations. I'd like to purge it all and configure only the working ones from the scratch. Any ideas to remove them all preferably via command line?

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answered 1 Year ago gavgenerati · Accepted Answer

Stop cupsd:

sudo stop cups

then edit the printer configuration:

sudo cp /etc/cups/printers.conf /etc/cups/printers.conf.backup

sudo nano /etc/cups/printers.conf

Remove all printer information and save.