[ale] Simple printer default question

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Fri Aug 1 13:09:21 EDT 2008


Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I have 2 printers defined in lp and cups.
> 
> I think I have cups defaulting to the correct printer, but lp is not.
> 
> How do I set the default printer for lp?  (Yes I should know, but I
> normally only have one printer available.)

lpstat -d will show the current default

you can change it with

lpadmin -d nameofprinter

-Brian



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