Cups printing question

Linda haniganwork at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 4 13:08:37 UTC 2010


Tony Pursell wrote:
> To find out all the options supported for your printer:
>
> lpoptions  -p YourPrinterName -l
>
> Have a look at the man entry for lpoptions.  The * indicates the current
> default options.  On its own lpoptions shows the defaults for your
> printer.
>
> Looking at the printer properties (System > Administration > Printing)
> may help you work out what they all mean.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Tony
>   
Thanks Tony and Florian. I should have gotten this from last round I 
just keep thinking it should be with the CUPS command line information. 
I am going to stick a huge note in my programing stuff and my CUPS book 
that reminds me about lpotions!
                         Linda




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