On reflection, maybe these are CUPS (vice gnome-p-m) bugs. Sorry for any confusion. The initial title just brought out my whole fustrtaion with the state of printing in dapper.
-- setting a default printer does not work https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/38149 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
