[cups.general] Setting cups options via lpadmin

[Michael Sweet]

On Jul 7, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Christian Andretzky wrote:
> Hi,
> after installing matlab on debian lenny (5.0.2) with cups 1.3.8 I  
> had problems
> to print directly from matlab. The mathworks people told me to add  
> the line
>
> Option orientation-requested 3
>
> to /etc/cups/printers.conf for each defined printer and to restart  
> cups. I did
> this manually using a editor.

This is generally bad advice since your changes can easily be  
overwritten...

> In short - it works. But now I'm looking for a solution to add this  
> line in a
> 'compatible' way for example with  - for example - lpadmin.

lpadmin -p printer -o orientation-requested-default=3

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer