As I said before, I do not have Chromebook, but in chrome
browser-settings-advanced-Printers

It brings a dialogue which looks very much like customized cups frontend.

There is also Google Cloud Print, which could be helpful.

...
-T

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020, 00:13 Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Here are some links to try:
> http://localhost:631/admin
> http://localhost:631/printers
>
> I do not have a printer configured to find where in /etc/cups is the
> printer config. You probably do not have /etc/cups on the Chromebook anyway.
>
> Hope it helps,
> -T
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 23:56 Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> The setup pages are likely active pages - meaning - you are looking for
>> script or executable generating the HTML displayed by the browser.
>>
>> Without further digging (it is too late now), I am not sure what the
>> executable is - it is using template to format the page in :
>> /usr/share/cups/templates/admin.tmpl on my system.
>>
>> Tomas
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 23:10 Michael Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 1:35 PM Tomas Kuchta <
>>> [email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I am afraid that if cups http interface does not respond properly - it
>>> will
>>> > likely not be able to be configured this way - most of the content is
>>> > active - not in files.
>>> >
>>> > In any case - you could always try to navigate to URLs as if they
>>> would be
>>> > on your desktop to list/add printers.
>>> >
>>> > Tomas
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 01:09 Michael Barnes <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Still fighting printer problems. I tried going to the cups management
>>> > page
>>> > > at localhost:631. I get the index page, but every line I click on
>>> brings
>>> > up
>>> > > a window that says "Not Found". Not much help. Where is it looking fo
>>> > these
>>> > > files? I think I found some of them in
>>> /usr/share/cups/doc-root/help/ but
>>> > > that apparently is not where the website is looking for them.
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> .
>>> I think I understand that. What I can't figure out is how to navigate to
>>> it.  When I point my browser to localhost:631, where is it looking? There
>>> has to be some kind of index.html or something to generate the main web
>>> page. There has to be some kind of source file. The links on that page
>>> for
>>> the various instructions point to localhost:631/help/<file>, but when I
>>> click on them, it says "Not Found". I have found the various files at
>>> /usr/share/cups/doc-root/help/ and I can point the browser at
>>> /usr/share/cups/doc-root/help/overview.html and read the page. However
>>> for
>>> actions like "Adding Printers and Classes" the link says
>>> localhost:631/admin. Like everything else, clicking on that returns "Not
>>> Found". Admin has to be  a file, link, command, something, but what and
>>> where? If I knew where it was, maybe I could find it, navigate to it, and
>>> move on.
>>> It is looking like hplip is my main problem. Looking at my other
>>> computer,
>>> it looks like hplip isn't even installed, that it is only using cups.
>>> Maybe
>>> I need to remove hplip and just use cups. Maybe I need to reinstall cups.
>>> If I can figure out how to do that.
>>>
>>> Michael
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