[cups.general] Making CUPS to set a new installed printer the default printer

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Feb 5 14:52:23 PST 2010


To set the default for all users run the following commands as root:

    lpadmin -d printer
    lpoptions -d printer

For a particular user, just run the lpoptions command.

On Feb 5, 2010, at 11:20 AM, patrick rolling wrote:

> I need to have CUPs set a USB printer that is discovered and isntalled locally to be the default printer (flag set ON) so that it is ready to be printer on by apps that use the default printer.
> 
> How to set this up?
> 
> thanks
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer



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