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Cups - Command Line Printing - Cheat Sheet

Written by Wim Stockman - on 04 jun 2020

Cheat Sheet

• 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