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During printer setup, certain options are set as default. These options can be modified
for every print job (depending on the print tool used). Changing these default options
with YaST is also possible. Using command line tools, set default options as follows:
1 First, list all options:
2 Change the option with lpadmin:
3 Check the new setting:
When a normal user runs lpoptions, the settings are written to ~/.lpoptions.
However, root settings are written to /etc/cups/lpoptions.
23.6 Graphical Printing Interfaces
Tools such as xpp and the KDE program KPrinter provide a graphical interface for
choosing queues and setting both CUPS standard options and printer-specific options
made available through the PPD file. You can even use KPrinter as the standard printing
interface of non-KDE applications. In the print dialog of these applications, specify
either kprinter or kprinter --stdin as the print command. The command to
use depends on how the application transmits the data—just try which one results in
starting KPrinter. If set up correctly, the application should open the KPrinter dialog
whenever a print job is issued from it, so you can use the dialog to select a queue and
set other printing options. This requires that the application's own print setup does not
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lpoptions -p queue -l
Example:
Resolution/Output Resolution: 150dpi *300dpi 600dpi
The activated default option is identified with a preceding asterisk (*).
lpadmin -p queue -o Resolution=600dpi
lpoptions -p queue -l
Resolution/Output Resolution: 150dpi 300dpi *600dpi
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