silent printing

Helge Blischke H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
Fri Aug 20 06:01:41 PDT 2004


kmeyer at dohle.com wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> is it possible to get lp in silent mode without replacing the lp binary with a shell script???
> 
> What I want is that the -s option is set by default.
> 
> Thanks for anwers.
> 
(1) Wait for CUPS 1.2.x - it will provide "global" default options.
(2) with CUPS 1.1.x, use the lpoptions mechanism (but it may be tedious;
    you must specify this option for every printer).
(3) Use samba >= 3.0.3 and print through samba. It povides a "cups
options"
    directive in smb.conf.

Helge


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