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[Phil Pemberton <1328798@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It appears that the printer dialogs are ignoring the system default
printer, or they're picking up a default from elsewhere.

If you right-click a printer in the dialog box, then select Set As
Default, you get two options. One is to set it as a personal default,
which updates ~/.cups/lpoptions. If you do that, then applications will
detect it as the default.

If you pick the "set as the system-wide default" and also check "clear
my personal default setting", applications seem to pick the first
printer known to CUPS (the first one ever added) -- certainly not the
one I picked to be my default printer.

Doing this twice -- setting the printer as a personal default, then
setting it as the system default and deselecting "clear my personal
default" seems to get everything working as expected.

However, I do have a /etc/lpoptions which points to the "wrong" default
printer (the one I'm seeing in applications). After deleting this file,
the default printer is picked up correctly!

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1328798

Title:
  Setting default printer does not work

Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Setting default printer does not work.

  This is a nagging bug because it's affecting a commonly used, basic
  function.

  This bug persisted for a long time already.
  Upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04 did not help.

  In my system, there are three configured printers: 1) a locally
  connected one (which can be absent or not at boot) - 2) the same
  printer accessed over the network at another computer - 3) another
  network printer.

  Printer 3 should be the default printer, e.g. the one which is
  preselected when opening any print dialogue.

  One can set a default printer in system settings - printer. I did this
  many times. The check box is set (and is still set when re-entering
  the dialogue later or another time), but each time a print dialogue is
  accessed in any program, another printer is preselected and not
  printer 3.

  One can also set a default printer in the cups admin dialogue. This
  did not change the behavior. The desired printer is marked as default
  printer in the cups admin interface, but each time a print dialogue is
  accessed in e.g. okular, another printer is preselected. So one has to
  select each time the desired printer.

  Not having to do that each time is what the setting "default printer"
  (by whatever dialogue) is for, but it simply does not work.

  One thing I noticed is that in the /etc/cups/printers.conf, the
  desired printer (3) is marked as <DefaultPrinter Kyocera>, but the
  closing tag in this file is not named </DefaultPrinter> as one would
  expect but just </Printer>.

  Maybe there is a conflict between two different systems for setting a
  default printer (cups vs. system settings)?

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