I am running Wine on CentOS 6 (and also a couple of versions of Ubuntu but the CentOS machine is where the printing concern resides.) I have all of 4 applications which I use under Wine. I only print from one, Visual Foxpro (xBase database files going back 30 years). The issue seems to be that over the several years the CentOS installation has been in use and as CUPS was upgraded etc. I needed to remove and recreate the entries for my Brother HL5170DN network attached laser printer. It is working fine from CentOS, from the Ubuntu machines and from a Windoze 7 test machine which I occasionally use. However, under Wine...

Each time a new printer is created on the CentOS machine it is added to the Wine printer list. When the printer is deleted on the CentOS machine it stays in the Wine printer list as viewed from an application running under Wine. Is there a way to manage the printer list which Wine maintains? I tried deleting the entries for the Brother printer from ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/win.ini but that did not do the trick. I can of course remove them from the Wine registry with regedit but that is tedious and I have not done Windoze registry tweaking in quite a while.

So the bottom line is... Is there a Wine configuration tool to manage printers?

TIA,

Ken

Although I use wine apps occasionally, I haven't needed to print. A quick search turned up printui CLI which might do the job for you, although probably just as tedious as your regedit approach

http://wiki.winehq.org/printui

Thanks ferrari,

I am not quite sure what that "utility" is supposed to do. I could not get it to return anything other than errors. I have ripped out ALL printers with regedit. The 3 printers actually available to the Linux system have reappeared as if by magic. I have one FoxPro label which no longer prints. I have used for more than 20 years - might have been created in DOS for all I remember.

Earlier this year Red Hat and thus CentOS upgraded CUPS to catch up with the rest of the Linux world. Cups-PDF was totally hosed - at least when printing from Firefox. There is a print to file in Firefox and I have become accustom to using that. As to the FoxPro reports and labels... I have the reports working now. I can print the labels to pdf and then print the pdf.

I may move to Ubuntu Mate 16.04 next year for the CentOS machine. I had moved from Ubuntu to CentOS back when Ubuntu 10.04 would not handle the dual monitor configuration which I wanted to setup. I have done some testing with later Ubuntu versions and they seem to handle it. I am running a little on the ragged edge with CentOS. My ancient video card is no longer supported so I can never upgrade the video driver (which I do not need to do UNLESS CentOS decides to force the issue - had that happen once.)

Thanks again,

Ken