Printing from an Application 333
As this equipment is a page printer we cannot change the physical length of a piece of paper so
the actual effect of this command is to change the value for lines per inch so that the requested
number of lines is printed on the page. The actual page length may differ from this value if the
top margin or the text length option is used.
If this option is not specified the PJL command will not be sent so the printer’s default value will
be used. The minimum page length allowable is 5. If value is less than 5 page length is set to 5.
The command to specify 66 lines per page is “lp -o pl=66 filename”.
Halftone
The halftone can be selected using the following options.
Example: The command to set the auto halftone for the print job is
“lp -o halftone=AUTO filename”
PCL5e Specific Options
Some of the options only apply to plain text or PCL5e files.
Text Wrapping
The following options control text wrapping when it reaches the right margin.
If this option is not specified the command will not be sent so the printer’s default value will be
used.
Example: The command to specify wrapping is “lp -o wrap filename”.
Left Margin
The left margin position can be specified with the following option.
If the left margin is set to the right of the right margin it will be ignored.
If this option is not specified the command will not be sent so the printer’s default value will be
used.
Example: The command to set the left margin to five columns is “lp -o lm=5 filename”.
Option Value
Alternate
Value
Description
halftone=AUTO Set the proper halftone depending on the contents in
the document automatically.
halftone=DETAIL Set the halftone in detail.
halftone=
SMOOTH
Set the halftone smoothly.
Option Value
Alternate
Value
Description
wrap Enable automatic text wrapping.
nowrap Disable automatic text wrapping.
Option Value
Alternate
Value
Description
lm=value Set the left margin to value columns.
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