[cups.general] Number of copies

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Jun 19 08:44:18 PDT 2009


On Jun 19, 2009, at 4:20 AM, Ion Petrache wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I noticed that from CUPS GUI the maximum number of copies is 999 but  
> from CLI is 100 (lp, lpr). When I am trying to print with 999 from  
> GUI an error message is generated. Is this a normal behavior? Why  
> that difference?


You didn't specify what platform or version of CUPS, so I'll guess you  
are running on Mac OS X?

The MaxCopies value is configurable in cupsd.conf; the default is 100  
on older CUPS releases and higher in 1.3 and beyond (to match the Mac  
OS X GUI limits...)

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Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer

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