Number of copies

Ion Petrache ionpetrache at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 12:15:54 PDT 2009


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> On Jun 19, 2009, at 4:20 AM, Ion Petrache wrote:
> > Hello!
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> > 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?
>
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> You didn't specify what platform or version of CUPS, so I'll guess you
> are running on Mac OS X?
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> 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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> wrote:</div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div>Hello!<br><br>I noticed that =
> from CUPS GUI the maximum number of copies is 999 but from CLI is 100 =
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> is generated. Is this a normal behavior? Why that =
> difference?<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>You didn't =
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> in 1.3 and beyond (to match the Mac OS X GUI =
> limits...)</div><div><br><div>
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I'm running CUPS on a OpenSuse 10.3 but I think is the same on this OS like on Mac OS X. I'll try to change the value from cupsd.conf and see whats happening.
Thanks a lot :)




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