CUPS paper tray setting doesn't stick

bluethumb · 05-16-2007, 05:06 PM

We have a visitor who brought a laptop with Slackware. I configured it to use our HP Color Laserjet 4700 printer. It's irritating because it always wants to load paper from Tray 1, which is the manual feeder.

The CUPS web adminstration page has a setting for this. I select Tray 2 and click "continue". When I look at the configuration again, it's back to Tray 1.

This computer didn't come with a ppd file for this particular printer, but I copied one from a Centos installation.

kummiliim · 05-17-2007, 01:58 PM

I'm not in Linux right now so I can't check it but doesn't CUPS have per printer config files in /etc? You could try editing it manually. Also if you change any other settings, do they stay the same? Are you logged in as root in the CUPS webadmin?