[cups.general] "Global" options?

[Michael R Sweet]

On 1.1.22 your options are really limited to lpoptions or ppd trickery. For 1.3 and later you can set server side defaults with the lpadmin command.

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On Jul 29, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Bryan Mason <bmason at redhat.com> wrote:

> I have a customer that would like to be able to have the "fitplot" 
> option added for all print jobs to a particular queue.  I know that each 
> client system could run "lpoptions -o fitplot -p printer" as root to 
> have "fitplot" added as a default for "printer", but is there a way to 
> specify on the central CUPS server that the "fitplot" option should be 
> added globally to all incoming print jobs for that printer?
> 
> It seems that printer-specific options like "PageSize" are stored in the 
> printer's PPD file and then all subsequent print jobs use those 
> defaults, but options like "fitplot" are saved in /etc/cups/lpoptions 
> (or $HOME/.lpoptions) on the client system.  Changing 
> /etc/cups/lpoptions on the central CUPS server does not seem to affect 
> print processing (cupsd doesn't seem to read any of the lpoptions files).
> 
> The customer is running cups 1.1.22 if that makes a difference.
> 
> Thanks.
> ~ Bryan
> 
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