Re: kde application for users to set printer options?

[Nowardev-Team <nowardev@xxxxxxxxx>]

first of all see this picture:

http://simplest-image-hosting.net/jpeg-0-peace-screenshot


here on kubuntu 12.04 is pretty simple set your default printer .... and i guess is simple in the others distro the option is disable only because i have only that printer but if you select the second printer , that actually is the fax you can set like default printer .

> 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

That is for system defaults. Need personal defaults.
That is how I normally do system defaults.

IF you are on lpadmin user you can  do what you want .....via firefox.

for user in     youruserlist ; do sudo adduser $USER lpadmin ; done

anyway  if you want restrict and manage your system you can always ....

kdesudo kate /etc/cups/cupsd.conf


NOTE KDESUDO is only for kubutnu i guess , if you don't use it you shoudl be able to do

sudo kate /etc/cups/cupsd.conf



search for this : (CTRL F) (line 72 and 117 )


CUPS-Set-Default

and remove them ... restart cups no password should be required  via firefox... choose the option you want... the conf file is pretty simple.

>
> 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”

I  was aware of lpoptions command.
No way a normal user can deal with that.

It's just too bad that kde has lost so much ground for enterprise use :-(
Then again the alternatives are as bad or worse.

>
> 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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