Specifying Attributes For Hpdps Print Jobs - HP 9000 User Manual

Basic Printing Tasks

Specifying Attributes for HPDPS Print Jobs

Specifying Attributes for HPDPS Print
Jobs
Quite often, the characteristics, or attributes, of print jobs differ from job
to job. You may have a particularly large job that requires printing on
two sides. You may have other jobs that require rotation of the printing
orientation or multiple copies. You may also have jobs that require a
combination of these things. You can specify attributes for your jobs and
documents by specifying an attribute and a value, referred to as an
attribute value pair. For a complete list of attributes, see the
manpages for attributes that belong to each HPDPS object. See "Getting
Help for HPDPS Commands" earlier for a list of these manpages or
enter:
man pd_att
Examples of some of these attributes are:
• copy-count (number of document copies)
• sides (double or single-sided copies)
• content-orientation (landscape or portrait layout)
• document-format (type of format)
• number-up (number of images on a page)
• results-profile (includes number of copies of a job)
• input-tray-select (specifying which printer tray to use)
To enter an attribute value pair, you use the -x attribute flag. For
example, to print three copies of File1, enter:
pdpr -x "copy-count=3" File1
If you want to specify several attributes and their values, the following
example illustrates how:
pdpr -x "copy-count=3 sides=2" File1
The above command specifies three copies with two-sided printing.
For consistency in examples, double quotation marks are shown around a
NOTE
single attribute and value pair, even though they are required only for
multiple attribute and value pairs.
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