lpoptions not available on print clients?

Kurt Pfeifle k1pfeifle at gmx.net
Thu Aug 9 08:51:50 PDT 2007


A. Sindermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on my print server I setup a queue hp0d which should enable
> printing 2 pages on a single sheet by executing:
> 
> lpoptions -p hp0d -o number-up=2
> 
> In /etc/cups/lpoptions I find
> 
> Default hp0
> Dest hp0d number-up=2
> 
> On the cups client machines (which get the printserver's queues via
> /etc/cups/client.conf) the default destination hp0 is known. But for
> some reason the number-up option is not know. I checked this with
> 'lpoptions -p hp0d'.

You may need to put all default options (that should be used by all CUPS
clients as their own defaults) into the printers.conf file on the server.
Like this:

  <Printer my_printername>
  [....]
  Option number-up 2
  Option foobar baz
  [...]
  </Printer>

See here:

  http://localhost:631/help/ref-printers-conf.html?TOPIC=References&QUERY=#Option

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Kurt Pfeifle
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