bashrc.
Adding the following line to your .bashrc file, for example, sets your default printer to lp3:
export PRINTER=lp3
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To override the default printer, specify a particular printer on the lpr command line. The following
example uses the -P option to select a different printer:
$ lpr -P canyonps doc1.ps
The lpr command has a variety of options that enable lpr to interpret and format several different
types of documents. These include -# num, where num is replaced by the number of copies to print
(from 1 to 100) and -l (which causes a document to be sent in raw mode, presuming that the
document has already been formatted). To learn more options to lpr, type man lpr.
Listing Printer Status with lpc
Use the lpc command to list the status of your printers. Here is an example:
$ lpc status
hp:
printer is on device 'parallel' speed -1
queuing is enabled
printing is disabled
no entries
daemon present
deskjet_5550:
printer is on device '/dev/null' speed -1
queuing is enabled
printing is disabled
no entries
daemon present
This output shows two active printers. The first (hp) is connected to your parallel port. The second
(deskjet_5550) is a network printer (shown as /dev/null). The hp printer is currently disabled
(offline), although the queue is enabled so people can continue to send jobs to the printer.
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