printing command lp options

[Pierre HERGOTT]

Is it possible to select an output tray on an HP laserJet 5Si printer (or another) when printing from unix using (10.20) the command lp ?

[Stefan Farrelly]

Yes, use the options ubbin or lbbin

[Pierre HERGOTT]

Hi

And in the case of printers with 2 front trays ?, can I choose the front tray 2 or 3 ?

Can I get the list of the lp command options anywhere ?

thanks

[Vincente Fernandes]

Look at "man lp". The man page has all the options for you.

[Pierre HERGOTT]

thanks, i know the man but itsn't exhaustive enough

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

For your laserjet5 all the available options for that printer are listed in the file;
/usr/spool/lp/model/laserjet5Si

Take a look.

[Bill Hassell]

man lp gives you no information on -o options to lp. In fact it states that you have to read the interface script to figure out what the options might be. Hummmm...

About 10 years ago, we (the HP Response Center) requested the labs to provide a way to see the options without becoming a shell script expert and the result is the -ooptions
option. ALl the standard HP printer scripts support the form:

lp -dmyprintername -ooptions /etc/issue

for instance. Now the options page is simple and not necessarily complete but it is a godd starting point.

And to make things even better, JetAdmin software for managing HP network printers supplies man pages for the generic printer scripts such as net_lj5x (man net_lj5x).

For the most recent printers, get the latest JetAdmin software from the HP website and replace your old interface scripts with the
latest version of the net_lj**** scripts. These are stored in the subdirectory model.orig for JetDirect printers. The man pages in the JetAdmin software go into details about the various -o options.