Hi All,
Fedora 37 simple-scan-42.5-1.fc37.x86_64
Any way to get Simple Scan to default to a different printer? Right now it defaults to "Print to LPR"
Many thanks, -T
On Mon, 2023-06-12 at 23:00 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Hi All,
Fedora 37 simple-scan-42.5-1.fc37.x86_64
Any way to get Simple Scan to default to a different printer? Right now it defaults to "Print to LPR"
I would assume (without checking) that it prints to whatever you have set as your default printer in your desktop Settings panel.
poc
On 6/13/23 02:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2023-06-12 at 23:00 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Hi All,
Fedora 37 simple-scan-42.5-1.fc37.x86_64
Any way to get Simple Scan to default to a different printer? Right now it defaults to "Print to LPR"
I would assume (without checking) that it prints to whatever you have set as your default printer in your desktop Settings panel.
poc
Xfce never figured that out.
And CUPS does not have a default printer that I can find.
On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 17:00 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
And CUPS does not have a default printer that I can find.
I can't speak for your current system, but on my older CentOS, going into http://localhost:631/printers, choosing a printer, clicking on the Administration drop-down gadget, there is a "Set As Server Default" option.
There's supposed to be a command line method, too:
lpoptions -d name-of-your-preferred-printer
And there may be a GUI in your system that's called up from running:
system-config-printer
I've found there are programs which ignore the default, and always go their own way. I've found that appimages won't use CUPS, they'll only print to printers they've found some other way (probably through ZeroConf discovery, even though I've tried to kill that as much as possible), and always defaults to print to PDF. Any attempt to print normally just goes into a black hole.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 05:00:02PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 6/13/23 02:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2023-06-12 at 23:00 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Hi All,
Fedora 37 simple-scan-42.5-1.fc37.x86_64
Any way to get Simple Scan to default to a different printer? Right now it defaults to "Print to LPR"
I would assume (without checking) that it prints to whatever you have set as your default printer in your desktop Settings panel.
poc
Xfce never figured that out.
And CUPS does not have a default printer that I can find.
The cups package includes /usr/sbin/lpadmin.
lpadmin has a "-d" option to set a default printer.
The Fedora 38 man page for lpadmin shows the option in the header but does not describe it in the text.
jl
On 6/12/23 23:00, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Hi All,
Fedora 37 simple-scan-42.5-1.fc37.x86_64
Any way to get Simple Scan to default to a different printer? Right now it defaults to "Print to LPR"
Many thanks, -T
If it helps, I had CUSS (Common Unix Scanning System) -- also known as SANE -- configured to print to LPR. And that was the only program I had configured this way.
I have since removed CUSS. Simple Scan is just too much easier to use and it works well.
-T