Setting Printer Options; Canceling Print Jobs From Command Line; General Printing Options For Cups - Fargo CUPS HDP5000 User Manual

S
etting Printer Options
For many types of files, the default printer options may be sufficient for your needs.
However, at times you may need to change the options for a particular file you are printing.
Cups provides both they System V (lp) and Berkeley (lpr) printing commands.
The lp and lpr commands allow you to pass printer options using the –o options:
lpoptions –o landscape –o scaling=75 –o media=A4 filename.jpg ENTER
lpoptions –p HDP5000 –o PageSize=CR79 (printer specific) ENTER

Canceling Print jobs from Command Line

Use the lpstat command to show jobs and the printers:
lpstat –o –p ENTER
The cancel and lprm commands cancel a print job:
cancel job_id ENTER
lprm job_id ENTER

General Printing Options for CUPS

• brightness
• gamma
• job-sheets
• landscape
• media
• number-up
• page-ranges
• page-set
• sides
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Sets the overall brightness of the output
Sets the overall gamma correction of the output
Chooses the banner pages to use for the job
Prints in landscape orientation
Sets the media size, source and /or type
Sets the number of document pages to print on each sheet of paper
Prints the selected pages in the document
Prints all, even, or odd pages in the document
Prints single- or double-sided
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