Printing features
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3. Special Features
Printing files
You can print text, image, pdf files on your machine using the standard CUPS
directly from the command line interface. The CUPS lp or lpr utility allows you to
do that. You can print these files by using below command format.
"lp -d <printer name> -o <option> <file name>"
Please refer to lp or lpr man page on your system for more details.
Configuring Printer Properties
You can change the default printing options or connection type with Printing
utility supplied by o/s.
1
Launch Printing utility(Go to System > Administration > Printing
menu or execute “system-config-printer” command in Terminal
program).
2
Select your printer and double-click it.
3
Change default printing options or connection type.
4
Click Apply button.
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Unix printing
Some features may not be available depending on models or options. It
means that the features are not supported (see "Features by model" on
page 6).
Proceeding the print job
After installing the printer, choose any of the image, text, or PS files to print.
1
Execute “printui <file_name_to_print>” command.
For example, if you are printing “document1”
printui document1
This will open the UNIX Printer Driver Print Job Manager in which the
user can select various print options.
2
Select a printer that has been already added.
3
Select the printing options from the window such as Page Selection.
4
Select how many copies are needed in Number of Copies.
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