| Title: | Printing from UNIX |
| Moderator: | KERNEL::COFFEYJ |
| Created: | Thu Dec 17 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 956 |
| Total number of notes: | 2876 |
G'day all
I have a customer how is trying to set up system 5 printing to a
HP4m+. His application wants to use lp -o to set up the page size and
orientation. From what I have read SVE is not able to use the -o option
to postscript printers. My question is how can we set up System 5
printing so that it talks pcl to the printer.
Regards
Kym Schwarz
Unix support
CSC Sydney
cross posted to digital_unix
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| 908.1 | KERNEL::COFFEYJ | La Feline Flooz - a unix cat | Fri Feb 07 1997 12:54 | 17 | |
If it's a postscript printjob going to the postscript printer then you can mess with lpr -O all you like and it'll make no difference. lp doesn't have a -o switch and on lpr -o is output tray not orientation. The Postscript code itself controls orientation so even if you sent a signal to the printer saying to switch to landscape if the postscript header is then sent down saying to print in portrait it'll come out in portrait. If it's not all postscript then the easy way to control orientation is usually to have a separate queue for each, usually page width is as easy a way to sets to landscape. (Set to 132 - the maximum for lpd - it will switch over). | |||||