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- print - printing tools
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- The _p_r_i_n_t subsystem provides a printing environment for Silicon Graphics
- workstations. The printing environment is built on top of the AT&T
- System V Release 3 printer spooling system. Graphical tools are provided
- for managing all aspects of printing. The _p_r_i_n_t subsystem is designed to
- take full advantage of the SGI _I_m_p_r_e_s_s_a_r_i_o(_1) product. _I_m_p_r_e_s_s_a_r_i_o
- provides a high performance printer server and scanning environment as
- well as support for the printing of a wide range of file formats.
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- The _P_r_i_n_t_e_r _M_a_n_a_g_e_r (_p_r_i_n_t_e_r_s(_1_m)) is used primarily to perform printer
- installation and removal. Other printing related administrative tasks
- can also be performed. These tasks include sending a test page, changing
- a printer's system connection and setting printer specific options. The
- _P_r_i_n_t_e_r _M_a_n_a_g_e_r represents each installed printer as an icon that can
- then be dragged onto the desktop. These icons allow drag-and-drop
- printing and provide graphical printer status information when double
- cliked by invoking the _P_r_i_n_t_S_t_a_t_u_s(_1) program.
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- The print job submittal tool is called _g_l_p(_1) (also available as
- _P_r_i_n_t_P_a_n_e_l). _g_l_p is a graphical replacement for the _l_p(_1) command. The
- program accepts the same command line arguments as _l_p. One of the _g_l_p
- program's more interesting features is its graphical options panels.
- These panels provide graphical access to printer specific options.
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- In addition to providing print queue information, _P_r_i_n_t_S_t_a_t_u_s(_1) displays
- detailed status information for _I_m_p_r_e_s_s_a_r_i_o printers, thereby quickly
- informing the user of such conditions as printer out of paper and paper
- jam.
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- All Impressario-compatible printers support a number of user-controllable
- features. Users can specify whether they want banner pages printed; how
- they want text formatted; how they want images scaled, rotated, and
- color-adjusted; and how they want PostScript documents printed. All of
- these options are supported by all Impressario printers, regardless of
- printer type or capability, because Impressario performing the work in
- software on the printer server. Users can also control a number of
- device-dependent features, which vary by printer.
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- The common options supported by Impressario-compatible printers are
- available through GUI "printer-specific options panels", accessed through
- PrintPanel or the Printer Manager. All of these options can be set on a
- per-print-job basis, or saved on a per-printer, per-user basis: each user
- can have saved settings for each printer. System defaults can also be
- set by the system administrator for those users who do not have saved
- settings already. For customers unable or unwilling to use graphical
- tools, all settings can be specified on the command line as well.
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- The common command-line equivalents for Impressario-compatible printer
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- options are specified as arguments to the _l_p(_1) command's -_o option. For
- instance, printing a file while turning off a banner page for a printer
- would be accomplished as follows:
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- _l_p -_o"_n_o_b_a_n_n_e_r" _f_i_l_e_n_a_m_e
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- The command line options are as follows:
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- bbbbaaaannnnnnnneeeerrrr////nnnnoooobbbbaaaannnnnnnneeeerrrr Turn on/off banner page printing.
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- vvvveeeerrrrbbbboooosssseeee////nnnnoooovvvveeeerrrrbbbboooosssseeee Turn on/off verbose debugging messages, reported in
- the spooler log file /_v_a_r/_s_p_o_o_l/_l_p/_l_o_g.
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- These options apply only to PostScript files following the Adobe Document
- Structuring Conventions, version 1.0 or above.
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- ppppssssppppaaaaggggeeeerrrraaaannnnggggeeee Print the specified page range, as in _p_s_p_a_g_e_r_a_n_g_e _2-
- _3.
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- ppppssssrrrreeeevvvveeeerrrrsssseeeeppppaaaaggggeeee Print the document in reverse order.
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- Print only the odd/even pages of the document.
- Useful when attempting to print double-sided on a
- single-sided printer.
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- These options apply only to raster image files supported by Impressario,
- but are independent of the image file type. All of the following options
- apply to all supported image types.
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- bbbbeeeessssttttffffiiiitttt Rotate and scale the image to occupy the largest
- possible amount of space on the page.
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- rrrroooottttaaaatttteeee Rotate the image in integer degrees, clockwise.
- Takes one integer argument.
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- fffflllliiiipppp Flip the image, producing a mirror image. Useful for
- printing transparencies and iron-on decals.
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- zzzzoooooooommmm Scale the image to an integer percentage of the page
- area. Takes one floating point argument. 0.0 means
- do not scale, 1.0 means scale to fill page.
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- ppppppppiiii Scale the image to match the specified input
- resolution, in pixels per inch. Useful when trying
- to print a scanned image at the original size,
- without knowing the resolution of the output device
- to do so, specify the scanned resolution. Takes one
- positive integer argument.
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- ggggaaaammmmmmmmaaaa Adjust the image colors by gammawarping according to
- the single floating point argument.
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- These options apply only to ISO and ASCII text files.
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- ppppsssstttteeeexxxxtttt Force PostScript to be used for text processing. If
- not specified, Impressario will use fastest path
- possible, bypassing PostScript if possible.
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- llllaaaannnnddddssssccccaaaappppeeee////ppppoooorrrrttttrrrraaaaiiiitttt Specify page orientation, top edge longest/shortest.
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- ffffoooonnnnttttnnnnaaaammmmeeee Use specified font name if available. Takes one
- argument, an Adobe Type 1 font name.
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- ffffoooonnnnttttssssiiiizzzzeeee Use specified font size if available. Takes one
- argument, a positive integer.
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- ccccoooolllluuuummmmnnnnssss Divide the page into multiple columns. Takes one
- argument, a positive integer.
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- Do/Don't reverse the page order of the text document.
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- ggggaaaauuuuddddyyyy////nnnnooooggggaaaauuuuddddyyyy Print gaudy (fancy) headers on each page.
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- Please read the release notes for _p_r_i_n_t. They contain the most recent
- information about the product. Release notes are provided on-line and can
- be read using the _g_r_e_l_n_o_t_e_s(_1) or _r_e_l_n_o_t_e_s(_1) programs, or from the
- system Toolchest's _H_e_l_p menu.
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