https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/printing-on-linux/m-p/2495802#M80056 what's the recommended way to print under linux?<BR /><BR />I just installed "cups" from <A href="http://www.cups.org" target="_blank">www.cups.org</A> and seems to work ok<BR /><BR />have redhat 7.0<BR />laserjet printer on network using jetdirect card<BR /><BR />installed latest rpm<BR />rpm -i -f cups-blah-blah.rpm<BR /><BR />very cool interface via web browser localhost:631<BR /><BR />just figured out how to do:<BR />lp -dprinter -ofp17 -ovsi6 file<BR /><BR />in cups=<BR />lp -dprinter -o cpi=18 -o lpi=8 file<BR /><BR />what's even cooler is support for the options: -o number-up=1,2,4<BR /><BR />which I don't think you can do under HPUX since there isn't support for PCL6(?) only PCL5(?)<BR /><BR />the online docs are at<BR /><A href="http://www.cups.org/sum.html#STANDARD_OPTIONS" target="_blank">http://www.cups.org/sum.html#STANDARD_OPTIONS</A><BR /><BR />before, I was using a hack to print - echo some escape sequences (PCL from model script on HP) + filename | netcat printer 9100 Mon, 19 Feb 2001 23:53:21 GMT wyan lowe 2001-02-19T23:53:21Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/printing-on-linux/m-p/2495802#M80056 what's the recommended way to print under linux?<BR /><BR />I just installed "cups" from <A href="http://www.cups.org" target="_blank">www.cups.org</A> and seems to work ok<BR /><BR />have redhat 7.0<BR />laserjet printer on network using jetdirect card<BR /><BR />installed latest rpm<BR />rpm -i -f cups-blah-blah.rpm<BR /><BR />very cool interface via web browser localhost:631<BR /><BR />just figured out how to do:<BR />lp -dprinter -ofp17 -ovsi6 file<BR /><BR />in cups=<BR />lp -dprinter -o cpi=18 -o lpi=8 file<BR /><BR />what's even cooler is support for the options: -o number-up=1,2,4<BR /><BR />which I don't think you can do under HPUX since there isn't support for PCL6(?) only PCL5(?)<BR /><BR />the online docs are at<BR /><A href="http://www.cups.org/sum.html#STANDARD_OPTIONS" target="_blank">http://www.cups.org/sum.html#STANDARD_OPTIONS</A><BR /><BR />before, I was using a hack to print - echo some escape sequences (PCL from model script on HP) + filename | netcat printer 9100 Mon, 19 Feb 2001 23:53:21 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/printing-on-linux/m-p/2495802#M80056 wyan lowe 2001-02-19T23:53:21Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/printing-on-linux/m-p/2495803#M80057 Cups is the New Standard for Unix Printing. Cups stands for Common Unix Printing Software.<BR /><BR />Cups does a Fine job under Linux.<BR /><BR />Have a Great Day! Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:21:47 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/printing-on-linux/m-p/2495803#M80057 Albert E. Whale, CISSP 2001-02-20T20:21:47Z