just open firefox or your browser and go here
http://localhost:631/printers/
select your printer
then ..... on administration box select : set like server default
you can see here http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-fn2058
btw ..... on kde 4.8.2 i have :
system settings => printer configuration => as you can see here i can't set the printer like default printer ...to solve that
kdesudo systemsettings
http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-bw2058
again if you can't do that you can set your default printer using this method :
type lpoptions
you should see something like this
poptions
auth-info-required=none copies=1 device-uri=hp:/usb/Officejet_4500_G510g-m?serial=CN113F81FP05CQ finisets=none,none marker-change-time=0 number-up=1 printer-commands=none printer-info='HP Officejet 4500 Ged=true printer-location=pavillion printer-make-and-model='HP Officejet 4500 g510g-m, hpcups 3.11.7' pinter-state-reasons=paused printer-type=167948 printer-uri-supported=ipp://localhost:631/printers/Offi
to set your printer like default in my case . using the name you can extract from this line device-uri=hp:/usb/Officejet_4500_G510g-m?serial=CN113F81FP05CQ
lpoptions -d “Officejet_4500_G510g-m”
you can use sudo before lpoptions if you can't set it like normal user.
2012/5/8 John McMonagle <johnm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
We have many printers and people need to set their default printer.
Also we have large multifunction printers that need account codes and a lot of
other options.
To make it manageable people set up instances with sets of options for various
projects.
Using kde 3.5 could do it all in Control Center with a nice user interface.
I can't seem to find any way to get the job done in kde 4.4.
The best I can find so far is using xpp.
Is there anything available?
John
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