[cups.general] Setting cups options via lpadmin

[Christian Andretzky]

Michael Sweet wrote:
> 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...
This is exactly my opinion.
> 
>> 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
> 
That's it, Thanks.

BTW - I could not find this in the man pages / documentation. Am I missing
something?
> ___________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
> 
> 
> 

Thanks again.

Christian
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