condensed command line printing

[Nancy Long]

What is the command for condensed landscaped printing? I'm trying to write a script and this is what I've tried. (One part of the script is to print the report.)

lp -ocondensed -olandscape -dhplj40001 /home/myfile.txt

The landscape part works but I can't get it to print condensed.

[Rodney Hills · Accepted solution]

lp -oc

see /usr/spool/lp/interface/model.orig/your.printer

-- Rod Hills

[Deshpande Prashant]

Hi
Try
lp -oc -olandscape -d hplj40001 /home/myfile.txt

Thanks.
Prashant.

[Nancy Long]

I don't want to be a pest... both of your answers helped me a lot. BUT, (I don't know how to describe this) I need to scrunch it up.. what should only take one page is taking two. It's condensing from right to left but not top to bottom. Instead of coming back at you again, could you tell me a resource where I can look this up, I can't find info on it in the man pages or my unix books? the -oc worked great... thank you.

[Rodney Hills]

If you are trying to get 132 column 66 line text output, then use the following-

lp -oc -ohsi9 -ovsi5 -otl66 yourfile

man net_lj4x

can tell you alot (a whole lot) on the options available for LaserJet printing.

-- Rod Hills

[Rodney Hills]

oh and
-olandscape

:)

-- Rod Hills

[Jeff Schussele]

Nancy,

Then you want something like

lp -o lpi=8 (6 lines per inch is default)

This value may be limited by the printer interface int the model dir.

HTH,
Jeff

[Deshpande Prashant]

Hi
Try man net_ljx000
If your printer prints banner, options might be seen on banner.

To compress length use
#lp -oc -olandscape -olpi12 -d PRINTER

The value for lpi can be 6,12,16,24,48

Thanks.
Prashant Deshpande.