[cups.general] Default Printer location

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Mar 14 07:26:22 PST 2006


Minatra, Pat H. wrote:
> Why does /etc/cups/printers.conf report the default printer to be
> different from the lpstat -d command?

The default in /etc/cups/printers.conf (or classes.conf) is the
*server* default (also known as the network default printer in
CUPS 1.2).

The lpstat -d command reports the *user* default which may be
different.  The "lpoptions -d printername" command sets the
user default printer, which is stored in /etc/cups/lpoptions when set
by root or ~/.lpoptions (CUPS 1.1.x) or ~/.cups/lpoptions (CUPS 1.2)
when set by an ordinary user.

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