[cups.general] How to change a particular printer option in CUPS

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Fri Mar 21 20:38:11 PDT 2008


On Mar 21, 2008, at 23:30 , Leslie Katz wrote:

> Is there a way to add that option to the existing options for the  
> printer in CUPS without changing anything else about the current  
> installation? For instance, could I simply use:
>
> # lpadmin -P MP160 -o CNInkCartridgeSettings=bk

That, or lpoptions.  (lpadmin edits the PPD, lpoptions stores per- 
user (or global if run by root) options added to the defaults.)

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