[cups.general] Setting the default printer?

[angel bosch]

setting default printer is as simple as setting a variable:

PRINTER=laserhp

also the server:

CUPS_SERVER=192.168.1.10

add this two values on your .bashrc, /etc/profile, or even better, to
your /etc/environment and you got it.

cheers

El dt 21 de 12 del 2004 a les 16:55 -0500, en/na pipitas va escriure:
> Andrew McCall wrote:
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> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > I seem unable to set the default printer using lpadmin -d printer-name
> > command, it seems to set it sometimes, but after CUPS restarts the system
> > doesn't have a default printer anymore. Other times it fails to do
> > anything at all.
> > 
> > Is there a config file that I can manually set the default printer in?
> 
> All printers are defined in the "/etc/cups/printers.conf" file of the
> CUPS server. 
> 
> The system-wide default printer is the one that is tagged with the
> "Default" keyword. The complete printer entry may look like this:
> 
>   <DefaultPrinter digimaster9110>
>   Info
>   Location
>   DeviceURI lpd://10.160.32.1/mqueue
>   State Idle
>   Accepting Yes
>   JobSheets banner.ascii,none
>   QuotaPeriod 0
>   PageLimit 0
>   KLimit 0
>   </Printer>
> 
> Please be aware that every user may choose to set his/her own
> personal "default" printer. In which case it is defined in the
> "$HOME/.lpoptions" file. An entry here could look like:
> 
>   Default mopier Option5=True OutputBin=OutputBin2 
> 
> To set a user-default printer, a user would have used the
> "lpoptions -d" command.
> 
> If the root user runs "lpoptions -d", the default printer
> configuration ends up in "/etc/cups/loptions".
> 
> If users have used any of the available printing GUI frontends
> (kprinter, xpp, gtklp), they might have used the "Set as default"
> (or similar) button (which would be equivalent to the "lpoptions
> -d" command).
> 
> All 3 methods (lpadmin, loptions/root, lpoptions/user) might have 
> been used on your system(s).
> 
> If all 3 files ($HOME/.loptions, /etc/cups/lpoptions, 
> /etc/cups/printers.conf) define (different) default printers, they
> take precedence in this order:
> 
>  1. $HOME/.loptions
>  2. /etc/cups/lpoptions
>  3. /etc/cups/printers.conf
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kurt
> 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Andrew McCall
> > Senior Technical Officer (Server)
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àngel bosch
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