Printing Commands In General


Table of Contents

Printing and Options 
Locating the Personal Default Destination 
Making use of the default printer 
Making use of the default printer 
Making use of the default printer 
pdf printing 
pdf printing (the most beatiful command) 

Printing and Options 

CUPS provides both the System V (lp(1)) and Berkeley (lpr(1)) printing commands for printing files. It's online help provide detail usage examples.

CUPS On-Line Help -> Getting Started -> Printing and Options
http://localhost:631/help/options.html?TOPIC=Getting+Started&QUERY=

It covers:

Canceling a Print Job

Choosing a Printer

N-Up Printing

Pretty Printing

Printing Files

Printing Multiple Copies

Printing On Both Sides of the Paper

Printing the Output of a Program

Raw or Unfiltered Output

Scaling to Fit

Selecting a Range of Pages

Selecting Even or Odd Pages

Selecting the Banner Page(s)

Selecting the Media Size, Type, and Source

Setting the Default Printer

Setting the Number of Characters Per Inch

Setting the Number of Columns

Setting the Number of Lines Per Inch

Setting the Orientation

Setting the Page Margins

Specifying Printer Options

Standard Printing Options

Text Options

documented on: 2006.11.11