Re: Making use of the default printer

["Martin Marcher" <martin@marcher.name>]

Hi,

2007/9/16, - Tong - <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>:
> Hi
>
> What's the "Default Printer" actually means?
>
> I've setup one of my printers to be "Default Printer",
> http://localhost:631/printers/

seems you refer to CUPS...

> and I unset the LPDEST environment variable, in hoping the consequent
> lpr will be using the "Default Printer", but this is what I get:

just use "lpoptions -d foo" to set this the default for your user (if
you want a special printer to be a default for a certain user)

otherwise set the default printer from the CUPS page and simply use lp
as the wrapper from the command line....