setting default options just for text/plain

[Helge Blischke]

Andreas Fromm wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I migrating our printing system for a Linux-work group from lprng to
> cups, and there is one thing I'm not getting to work. We are filtering
> plain-text documents send to the printer through a2ps for printing 2-up
> pages with a pretty header, and that should continue working with the
> cups-system.
> 
> My question is now, how can I tell cups that just the text/plain - type
> should be printed with "-o prettyprint -o number-up=2" by default? I
> tried some changes in the mime.convs file, but couldn't get it done.
> 
> By the way, the -o prettyprint isn't doing what it should do. It puts a
> Grey bar on the top of the page, but it is not writing the filename and
> page numbers.
> 
> Is there someone who could give me some hints? I couldn't find something
> useful by googling.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andreas Fromm

Look at the lpoptions command. You may specify a printer instance 
(printername/instancename) on a per user and on a system-wird basis, but
currently these instances aren't advertized over the net (that will come 
with CUPS 1.2.x, I think).

Helge

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