[cups] Cups default/private job options

Helge Blischke helgeblischke at web.de
Wed Mar 6 12:25:33 PST 2019


> Am 06.03.2019 um 15:33 schrieb Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo at alaxarxa.net>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have a cups server configured and working in a Debiab Stretch (cups 2.2.1). We
> have a new Konica Minolta printer C258 that has an authentication system.
> 
> The manufacturer has some non public ppd and driver where you can define the
> user and pass in the Default options at the web cups front-end.
> 
> The system is working but in some cases, (for instance okular or some
> sophisticated apps) are setting all the options (including the default), and
> that parameters are not respected and send correctly to the printer.
> 
> So my questions are:
> 
> - can I fix in some way that default options to be non modifiable by the user?
> - or, can I hide that options in some way that the apps cannot set or see that
> parameters?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Leopold
> 

Please post the PPD for this printer you are using.
NOTE: you need to add the extension ".txt“ to the file name because the list eliminates
all attachments which are not text files.

Helge 



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