Cups Driver Printer Instance

Here is the solution provided by the CUPS driver developer and works fine for me - thank you so much:

lpadmin -p printername -o orientation-requested-default=6

I have already contacted the cups driver developer who told me, that instances for printers are not supported by MacOS. So we can forget about this idea of solution - unfortunately. If he leaves a comment with any kind of help or idea I will for sure post here as well.

I alredy know about this but thank you for replying at all. My problem is the following: I have installed a printer which is doing fine in the network and any client can use it. But the documents are all upside down. So I have tried to create an instance of this printer with default settings orientation-requested=6 as a pre-setting or like default. At least this is the only thing I want to do: rotate the document in the printer settings by 180 degrees. The windows printer driver for same printer has this option to select or unselect. But who wants to use windows. So I am trying to figure out where I can preset this value in CUPS. In the printing-GUI while going to print I can only select landscape or portrait but not 180 degrees.

Thanks for your reply and that seems to be exactly the problem. But at least I am wondering if the used comand "sudo lpoptions -p Zebra_GLS/Zebra180 -o orientation-requested=6" will have any result or effect at all. I found this in the cups documentation. But it does not create a printer instance - or I can not see it - called Zebra180. Does this command does not work at all or am I doing something wrong......?

While studying this I will set up the same printer on our old OSX-Servers and share the printer in the network instead of installing them manually. But I do not expect this will work. As stated in the hint shown by your link the files have to be in the usr - directory. So I expect we can share the printer in the network based on an old server OS with old cups but while printing on the client it will refer for setting to the file in the usr - directory = local service settings.

If it works I will post here.....

Yes, that works for sure but the labels I need to print are prepared in an Web-GUI from shipping company and in there I can only do landscape or portrait. Anyway. It there is no other solution we have to do some extra work for each print out.....

thanks for your help

I think same but I least I can not find any effect after that command - I expected the new instance as a new printer in CUPS but can not find anything like that. And now I tried the old Mac Server OS which has still CUPS 1.4.7 - haha - but it is the same problem over there. It is still upside down independent from printing locally form server or via client through (same) shared printer with server settings.