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Old 05-07-2008
How to change the default printer
Hello,

I'm using Fedora core 5 and bash shell. Could someone please let me know how to change the default printer?

Thanks
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Old 05-07-2008
edit /etc/cups/printers.conf (format is intuitiv, else google for it)
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Old 05-07-2008
I also type this command

/usr/sbin/lpadmin -d printername
 
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