lpoptions applied when?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Sep 30 08:03:37 PDT 2005


Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
>>In short, options are collected on the client and applied on the
>>server.
>>
> 
> 
> Ok. I thought the means of transporting options was as a part of the
> postscript data.
> 
> But that means you cannot centralise options since they only get applied
> at the hosts, right?

Not specifically; options specified at the client side override the
defaults specified on the server side; the server side options are
stored in the PPD and printers.conf files.

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