How to change a particular printer option in CUPS

Leslie Katz lesliek19 at yahoo.com.au
Sat Mar 22 16:25:29 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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> brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
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> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH
>
>

Thanks very much for your reply. I'll try lpoptions.




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