[cups] Why is my default printer wrong?

Todd And Margo Chester toddandmargo at gmail.com
Mon Oct 30 01:31:04 PDT 2023


Hi All,

Fedora 38
cups-2.4.7-1.fc38.x86_64

Why do all my programs default to "Cups-PDF" and not
"HLL2300D".  All Wine and native Linux programs.
And changing it in my programs does not stick.

Many thanks,
-T

/etc/cups/printers.conf

<Printer Cups-PDF>
PrinterId 4
UUID urn:uuid:8d86be01-61b0-3452-6e91-ee3dcc9adb2b
Info Cups-PDF
Location Office
MakeModel Generic CUPS-PDF Printer (no options)
DeviceURI cups-pdf:/
State Idle
StateTime 1698651517
ConfigTime 1698531817
Type 8450124
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>

<DefaultPrinter HLL2300D>
PrinterId 15
UUID urn:uuid:19a617e6-961d-36e7-6618-e6d37a74bd43
Info HLL2300D
Location Office
MakeModel Brother HL-L2300D for CUPS
DeviceURI usb://Brother/HL-L2300D%20series?serial=U63878H3N412319
State Idle
StateTime 1698652889
ConfigTime 1698485181
Type 8425492
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</DefaultPrinter>


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