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Like most people I use CUPS for printing and the cups-bsd package for printing from the command line.
Printing like this:
lpr filenameResulted for some reason had started producing this error:
lpr: Error - no default destination available.The command
lpstat -pgave a list of printers available. From this list choosing one to be the default fixed the problem:
lpoptions -d printernameCool!
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