topic Margins on printer output in Operating System - HP-UX

Margins on printer output

jok llamera — Thu, 24 May 2001 07:35:26 GMT

hi guys,

I have an HP printer used as line printer for my HP9000 server. I want to know if its posible to configure paper size/margins on the OS level.

jok

Re: Margins on printer output

Wieslaw Krajewski — Thu, 24 May 2001 20:52:23 GMT

Hi,

Try:

cd /etc/spool/interface

In this directory there is a file with name as your printer (queue) name. This is script which is run when printing
file on the printer. Many comments in this script are commonly defined, and among them those to establish margins and so on. You can edit this file to have permanent configuration.

Me, I give left margin value directly in the command, ex.

lp -ddestination -olm6 file

to print with left margin equal to 6.

Rgds.

Re: Margins on printer output

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 24 May 2001 21:44:50 GMT

Hi:

Another option is to use 'pr' and pipe its output to 'lp'. For instance:

# pr -o16 -l80 | lp

This would (o)ffset the printing to the right by 16 characters and set the number of (l)ines per page to 80.

...JRF...