Default paper size

[mikewillis]

If I set up a new printer with YaST the paper size default to Letter. Since I live in a land where our default paper size is A4, having to change the paper size when I set up a printer is becoming increasingly irritating. Making printers set up with A4 by default has thus far defeated me. The only place I can find where a default paper size is defined is

me@foo:~> cat /etc/papersize 
a4

and that as you can see already says A4. I've found references to CUPS setting the default paper size based upon the locale, but my locale is, far as I can tell, set to en_GB.

me@foo:~> env | grep LANG
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
me@foo:~> grep LANG /etc/sysconfig/language  | grep -v ^#
RC_LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
ROOT_USES_LANG="ctype"
INSTALLED_LANGUAGES="en_GB"

Which to my mind means that if CUPS does look at the locale, it should be getting A4. I also tried looking at some of the drivers to see if they specify a default page size. Earlier on today I set up a HP LaserJet 1200 and it defaulted to Letter paper. If I look at the driver I find:

me@foo:~> zgrep DefaultPageSize /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs/hp/HP_LaserJet_1200.ppd.gz 
*DefaultPageSize: A4
me@foo:~> zgrep DefaultPageSize /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs/hplip/HP_LaserJet_1200-ps.ppd.gz
*DefaultPageSize: A4

Anyway know why that despite all this, I keep getting Letter as the default?