Gary Roach wrote: > I assume that you are using an Xwindows system and have a web browser > installed. Try http://localhost:631/ to pull up the Cups aministration > page. Set your printer defaults there and lp will follow. I find lp > too arcane for my tastes being lazy. At the main page select: Add > printer classes>manage printers>Click on que name for your > printer>Administration>Set default options. I would suggest setting > draft mode and draft resolution as well as long edge. Your lp or lpr > printing will use these defaults. This is much easier that messing > around with the command line and stays set. This is what I had already configured, at the beginning, and it changed nothing! I never use CLI for printing with CUPS, but the (localhost) web interface, as you suggest. The aforementioned command was simply Adobe Acrobat's interpretation of the options I had set when printing a PDF doc. > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:20:39 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >>> Amongst two printers, I've got an Hp Deskjet 990Cxi, and I use >>> `CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2' as a driver for this printer. I would like to >>> print both sides, e.g. using long edge mode (standard). The problem is >>> that this seems not to be communicated to the printer, despite of the >>> invokated command: >>> >>> == >>> lpr -P Deskjet -o Resolution=300dpi -o PageSize=Letter -o >>> Duplex=DuplexNoTumble >>> == >>> > >
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