[cups] Default size

ALi osatien at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 03:14:37 PST 2014


the restart command didnt worked so well (new ubuntu and not using service
cups restart or /etc/init.d/cups restart)
after putting DefaultPageSize and restart cups ir worked!!!!!!!

so sorry and thanks :)


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:44 AM, ALi <osatien at gmail.com> wrote:

> we are creating the printer with cups.
> so i think it is using some locale?? i would like to left the program we
> are using, without modifying, and it is better to let cups has always the
> same papersize (at least for our system)
>
> but i would like to know what setting should we change to have default
> paper size A4 instead of letter, in the locale we are using. ( i dont mind
> to touch system settings like locales o files that regards to paper size)
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Jan 22 10:10 ALi wrote (excerpt):
>>
>>  Is it influencing that we are creating the printer with
>>> en_US locale that has letter as default??? how can i change
>>> this in cups/environment defaults????
>>>
>>
>> As far as I know it is the locale of the cupsd
>> that determines what fallback paper size is used
>> when a print queue is created by "lpadmin"
>> without explicit specifying the right paper size.
>>
>> When you use "lpadmin", you would have to change
>> the cupsd's locale.
>>
>> When you create a print queue with whatever tool,
>> it depends on that tool what fallback paper size
>> is used when a print queue is created by that tool
>> without explicit specifying the right paper size.
>>
>> I think it is better to explicitly specify the right
>> paper size (what is actually loaded in the printer)
>> when creating a print queue because that will work.
>>
>> See "Different default paper size settings" at
>> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Print_Settings_with_CUPS
>>
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Johannes Meixner
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