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I have two USB printers. They are assigned a path depending on the order of turning them on. The first one is /deb/usb/lp0 and the second one /deb/usb/lp1. However, I sometimes echo to these printers directly and need to know which one is lp0 and which one is lp1. Can I assign a fixed path in some way?

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You can write udev-rules to assign different names to the printer, depending on their serial numbers.

See http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-printer for an example of a udev printer rule.

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    please note that in Ubuntu (at least 10.04 and later) use udevadm info instead of udevinfo. So to check up on your lp0 printer you'd use the command udevadm info --attribute-walk --name /dev/usb/lp0 (note that it generates tons of data)
    – Guss
    Apr 15, 2011 at 17:58

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