On 01/06/2008 04:23 PM, Jeffrey Anderson wrote:
> On Sunday 06 January 2008, Steve White <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> My colleague can configure his SL5 workstation to print without CUPS,
>> using KDE.
>>
>> I gather from this discussion that the SL5 distro Gnome desktop does not
>> provide a way to configure the system to print directly to a networked
>> printer *without CUPS*, although the KDE desktop does.
> 
> lpoptions -d MYPRINTER 
> 
> should set the default printer for the system.  It doesn't really have 
> anything to do with your choice of desktop.  The gui desktops may or may not 
> include a graphical thingy to perform this, but that is certainly not 
> necessary.

I believe this is what the KDE print dialog does as well:
http://printing.kde.org/faq/kdeprint.php#HowdoIcreateaglobalinstanceaccessibletoallusers

In addition/alternatively, you might be able to set a per-user default
printer via the LPDEST or PRINTER environment variables. Nevertheless,
your local "lpr" or "lp" command will need to know about this printer
for things to work (e.g. via /etc/printcap for "plain" lpr, or
/etc/cups/printers.conf for CUPS).

Best regards
Jan