+------------------------------------------+ |Cups - Command Line Printing - Cheat Sheet| |Written by Wim Stockman - on 04 jun 2020 | +------------------------------------------+ ____ _ _ ____ ____ / ___| | | | _ \/ ___| | | | | | | |_) \___ \ | |___| |_| | __/ ___) | \____|\___/|_| |____/ ___ _ _ ___ _ _ _ / __|___ _ __ _ __ __ _ _ _ __| | | | (_)_ _ ___| | _ \_ _(_)_ _| |_(_)_ _ __ _ | (__/ _ \ ' \| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | | |__| | ' \/ -_) ) _/ '_| | ' \ _| | ' \/ _` | \___\___/_|_|_|_|_|_\__,_|_||_\__,_| |____|_|_||_\___| |_| |_| |_|_||_\__|_|_||_\__, | |___/ List available printers: lpstat -p View default printer: lpstat -d You can combine the commands: lpstat -p -d Setting the default printer: lpoptions -d PRINTERNAME This overwrites the ~/.cups/lpoptions file be carefull if you had some options in View the options available for your printer: lpoptions -p PRINTERNAME -l to print with a specific options: lp -p PRINTERNAME -o Media=A4 -o fit-to-page -o Quality=Draft CREATING SAVED OPTIONS So you can acces them later with an instance of your printer and don't have to retype everything. lpoptions -p PRINTERNAME/INSTANCE1 -o Media=A4 -o fit-to-page -o Quality=Draft then you can print with these options by specifying the instance lp -p PRINTERNAME/INSTANCE1 file-to-print.ps +--------------------------------------------------+ |Suggestions? gopher@yasendfile.org | +--------------------------------------------------+