Friday March 09, 2007
Printing basics on Solaris
Here are some basic print commands to help you overcome your intial printing hurdles on Solaris.
The simplest usage of the print command is
$ lp file
To print multiple files at the same time, type:
$ lp file1 file2....
And to print multiple copies of the file,type
$ lp -n file
where “n” is the number of copies you want to print.
When you issue a print command on your Solaris system, it prints to the default printer. To know your system's default printer, type
$ lpstat -d
To set your default printer, add the following line in your .bashrc file : (if you are using bash)
export LPDEST = "printer-name"
where LPDEST is the default printer's environment variable.
For the changes to be effective immediately,source
the .bashrc file as shown:
$ . ./.bashrc
You can also set the default printer at the command line as shown below, but this is only temporary and the changes are lost once you exit out of the shell.
$ export LPDEST=printer-name
To
print to a specific printer , type
$ lp -d printer_name filename
And to check the printer's status (idle or active), type
$
lpstat -p printer_name
To cancel a print job,you need to know the request id. Type
$ lpstat
-o printer_name
The first column in the output shows the printer name, the second shows your user-id and the third column shows the request id number.
Cancel the print job by typing
$ cancel request_id | printer_name
You might also want to read this article on printing by Carl Grammer.
Hope you found this short printing primer useful. Do let me know.
Posted at 01:38PM Mar 09, 2007 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun | Comments[1]
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