Listing CUPS printer names
Running the following command will tell you the
CUPS Printers known to your workstation:
$ lpstat -a
And the output will look something like this:
color1 accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
color2 accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
So, for my workstation the
CUPS Printers are
color1 and
color2. To find out the
default printer, use the following command:
$ lpstat -d
And the output:
system default destination: color2
Setup of Default CUPS printer
CUPS stores the
default printer setting in
/etc/cups/lpoptions. In
order to change the default printer name for the workstation, type the
following command as
root:
$ lpoptions -d <printername>
For users who would like to use another printer as the
default printer, they can run the above
command under their user id. The setting will be stored in
~/.lpoptions