Discover HPLIP supported USB, parallel, and network attached printers.
Usage: hp-probe [OPTIONS]
[OPTIONS]
| Bus to probe: | -b<bus> or --bus=<bus> |
| <bus>: cups, usb*, net, bt, fw, par (*default) (Note: bt and fw not supported in this release.) | |
| Set Time to Live (TTL): | -t<ttl> or --ttl=<ttl> (Default is 4). |
| Set timeout: | -o<timeout in secs.> or --timeout=<timeout is secs.> |
| Filter by functionality: | -e<filter list> or --filter=<filter list> |
| <filter list>: comma separated list of one or more of: scan, pcard, fax, copy, or none*. (*none is the default) | |
| Search: | -s<search re> or --search=<search re> |
| <search re> must be a valid regular expression (not case sensitive) | |
| Network discovery method: | -m<method> or --method=<method>: <method> is 'slp'* or 'mdns'. |
| Set the logging level: | -l<level> or --logging=<level> |
| <level>: none, info*, error, warn, debug (*default) | |
| Run in debug mode: | -g (same as option: -ldebug) |
| This help information: | -h or --help |
Examples:
| Find all devices on the network: | hp-probe -bnet |
| Find all devices on USB that support scanning: | hp-probe -busb -escan |
| Find all networked devices that contain the name 'lnx' and that support photo cards or scanning: | hp-probe -bnet -slnx -escan,pcard |
| Find all devices that have queues installed in CUPS: | hp-probe -bcups |
| Find all devices on the USB bus: | hp-probe |