kde application for users to set printer options?

[John McMonagle]

On Wednesday, May 09, 2012 02:05:27 am Nowardev-Team wrote:
> You have an old kde , you should consider to upgrade it , but if you don't
> want .... ll you can always use your browser to set your 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.

> 
> 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 at advocap.org>
> 
> > 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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