Printing legal landscape in command line

[Jonathan Caplette_1]

Hi guys!!

I've a HP LaserJet 5000N with a Jetdirect card... This printer work fine if I print in a letter format... But I need to print in a legal - landscape format... What are the option when I use "lp"???

This printer have 3 tray... Can I specify a tray in the command line???

Thanks
Jonathan

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Jonathan,

"lp -d wherever -o land" should give landscape mode. Tray selection should be "-o obin#" where the # indicates the tray "number".


Pete

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

# lp printername -o landscape -o tray3 filename

Robert-Jan.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Your best option is to do something like this:

ls | lp -dmyprinter -o options

The -o options will list the available options for your interface file - or it may direct you to a man page that indicates the available options.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Jonathan,

When you denote
-o landscape
you automatically default to 45 lines per page. So unless you want to overrule that you need do nothing further to accomodate page length.

Use
-o legal
to set paper length to legal

Use
-o binX (where X = bin #)

So the command would look like

lp -o landscape -o legal -o binX -dptr_name /file/to print

HTH,
Jeff

[Bill Hassell]

Print a test page with the special option -ooptions (that's correct, -ooptions). lp is one of the only commands where there must be no spaces between an option (-o) ane the parameter (options). Something like this:

lp -lpprinter_queue -ooptions /etc/issue

But much more useful for JetDirect printers is the man page:

man net_lj5x

You'll find a enormous number of options used by the net_lj5x printer script.

[Jonathan Caplette_1]

It worked!

Thanks guys!