This parameters controls how printer status information is interpreted on your system. It also affects the default values for the print command, lpq command, lppause command , lpresume command, and lprm command if specified in the [global] section. Currently nine printing styles are supported. They are BSD, AIX, LPRNG, PLP, SYSV, HPUX, QNX, SOFTQ, and CUPS. To see what the defaults are for the other print commands when using the various options use the testparm 1 program. This option can be set on a per printer basis See also the discussion in the [printers] section.