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|Cups - Command Line Printing - Cheat Sheet|
|Written by Wim Stockman - on 04 jun 2020  |
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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
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