[cups.general] Why are jobs going to the wrong printer?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Jun 2, at 9:42, lists.cups-general at duinheks.nl wrote:

> Hallo Brandon,
>
> Op maandag 02 juni 2008 schreef Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH aan Mirror of
> cups.general Newsgroup:
>
>>> /etc/cups/lpoptions:
>>> Dest Colour outputorder=reverse
>>> Default Photo10x15 scaling=100 position=top-right page-left=o
>>> page- right=0 page-top=0 page-bottom=0 Dest PhotoA4
>>> scaling=100 position=top-left
> BSAKN> The Default line there is your problem.  Use lpoptions as root
> BSAKN> to set  the default.
>
> That does the trick, thank you very much.
> Can you also explain why?

As in, how it got there?  No.  I don't use the web interface much, but  
did notice that lpoptions seems to have a mind of its own --- I kept  
having odd defaults creep into it when using lpadmin to configure  
things and now just force things with lpoptions afterward.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH