options on server and instances
Michael Sweet
mike at easysw.com
Mon May 10 06:34:26 PDT 2004
james_hurford at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am setting up a CUPS server to replace our lp print server and I
> cannot find answers to the following questions in the documentation.
>
> 1) I would like to script the setting up of the printers. I have a
> script to create them but I cannot seem to change the configuration
> of a printer. If I try the lpoptions command to change the deafult
> media size to A4 this is not reflected when I look at the printer
> through the web front end.
>
> Should I be using lpadmin and if so how ?
Yes:
lpadmin -p printer -o media=A4
> 2) In the users documentation it mentions setting up instances for
> different options for printers. I cannot find in this mentioned in
> the administrator manual.
Right, it is a client-side thing for users; use:
lpoptions -p printer/instance -o option=value ...
Note that instances are local to the current system; there is
currently no way to automatically export instances from a server
to the clients.
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