PRINT(1) Printing Tools PRINT(1)
NAME
print - printing tools
DESCRIPTION
The print subsystem provides a printing environment for Silicon Graphics
workstations. The printing environment is built on top of the AT&T
System V Release 3 printer spooling system. Graphical tools are provided
for managing all aspects of printing. The print subsystem is designed to
take full advantage of the SGI Impressario(1) product. Impressario
provides a high performance printer server and scanning environment as
well as support for the printing of a wide range of file formats.
The Printer Manager (printers(1m)) is used primarily to perform printer
installation and removal. Other printing related administrative tasks
can also be performed. These tasks include sending a test page, changing
a printer's system connection and setting printer specific options. The
Printer Manager represents each installed printer as an icon that can
then be dragged onto the desktop. These icons allow drag-and-drop
printing and provide graphical printer status information when double
cliked by invoking the PrintStatus(1) program.
The print job submittal tool is called glp(1) (also available as
PrintPanel). glp is a graphical replacement for the lp(1) command. The
program accepts the same command line arguments as lp. One of the glp
program's more interesting features is its graphical options panels.
These panels provide graphical access to printer specific options.
In addition to providing print queue information, PrintStatus(1) displays
detailed status information for Impressario printers, thereby quickly
informing the user of such conditions as printer out of paper and paper
jam.
Common Printing Options
All Impressario-compatible printers support a number of user-controllable
features. Users can specify whether they want banner pages printed; how
they want text formatted; how they want images scaled, rotated, and
color-adjusted; and how they want PostScript documents printed. All of
these options are supported by all Impressario printers, regardless of
printer type or capability, because Impressario performing the work in
software on the printer server. Users can also control a number of
device-dependent features, which vary by printer.
The common options supported by Impressario-compatible printers are
available through GUI "printer-specific options panels", accessed through
PrintPanel or the Printer Manager. All of these options can be set on a
per-print-job basis, or saved on a per-printer, per-user basis: each user
can have saved settings for each printer. System defaults can also be
set by the system administrator for those users who do not have saved
settings already. For customers unable or unwilling to use graphical
tools, all settings can be specified on the command line as well.
The common command-line equivalents for Impressario-compatible printer
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options are specified as arguments to the lp(1) command's -o option. For
instance, printing a file while turning off a banner page for a printer
would be accomplished as follows:
lp -o"nobanner" filename
The command line options are as follows:
General options, independent of filetype
banner/nobanner Turn on/off banner page printing.
verbose/noverbose Turn on/off verbose debugging messages, reported in
the spooler log file /var/spool/lp/log.
PostScript file options
These options apply only to PostScript files following the Adobe Document
Structuring Conventions, version 1.0 or above.
pspagerange Print the specified page range, as in pspagerange 2-
3.
psreversepage Print the document in reverse order.
psoddpage/psevenpage
Print only the odd/even pages of the document.
Useful when attempting to print double-sided on a
single-sided printer.
Image file options
These options apply only to raster image files supported by Impressario,
but are independent of the image file type. All of the following options
apply to all supported image types.
bestfit Rotate and scale the image to occupy the largest
possible amount of space on the page.
rotate Rotate the image in integer degrees, clockwise.
Takes one integer argument.
flip Flip the image, producing a mirror image. Useful for
printing transparencies and iron-on decals.
zoom Scale the image to an integer percentage of the page
area. Takes one floating point argument. 0.0 means
do not scale, 1.0 means scale to fill page.
ppi Scale the image to match the specified input
resolution, in pixels per inch. Useful when trying
to print a scanned image at the original size,
without knowing the resolution of the output device
to do so, specify the scanned resolution. Takes one
positive integer argument.
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gamma Adjust the image colors by gammawarping according to
the single floating point argument.
Text file filtering options
These options apply only to ISO and ASCII text files.
pstext Force PostScript to be used for text processing. If
not specified, Impressario will use fastest path
possible, bypassing PostScript if possible.
landscape/portrait Specify page orientation, top edge longest/shortest.
fontname Use specified font name if available. Takes one
argument, an Adobe Type 1 font name.
fontsize Use specified font size if available. Takes one
argument, a positive integer.
columns Divide the page into multiple columns. Takes one
argument, a positive integer.
reversepages/noreversepages
Do/Don't reverse the page order of the text document.
gaudy/nogaudy Print gaudy (fancy) headers on each page.
manpage Used when printing manpages, to give a standard
appearance, and ensure that they page breaks appear
correct. Used by the man command with the -t option.
NOTE
Please read the release notes for print. They contain the most recent
information about the product. Release notes are provided on-line and can
be read using the grelnotes(1) or relnotes(1) programs, or from the
system Toolchest's Help menu.
SEE ALSO
printers(1), glp(1), PrintStatus(1), Optional product impressario(1)
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