Printing with CUPS and plain text
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From: Aaron W. Hsu on 7 Apr 2010 01:37 I sometimes find it convenient to take a text document and print it to my printer with something like $ lpr my_file.txt Where my printer is a CUPS based K5400 Officejet Pro. I'm running Slackware64 13.0. This works quite well, in general, but there is on annoying problem that persists. The margins on the K5400 are a bit large at the top and bottom of the page. I can account for this when printing postscript files, which is how most documents are printed (such as enscript or a2ps or DVI), but if I just want to send a plain text document out, what can I do to make sure that the plain text is not cut off at the bottom and top of the page? Aaron W. Hsu -- A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
From: Aaron W. Hsu on 7 Apr 2010 01:55 Aaron W. Hsu <arcfide(a)sacrideo.us> writes: >This works quite well, in general, but there is on annoying problem >that persists. The margins on the K5400 are a bit large at the top and >bottom of the page. I can account for this when printing postscript >files, which is how most documents are printed (such as enscript >or a2ps or DVI), but if I just want to send a plain text document out, >what can I do to make sure that the plain text is not cut off at the >bottom and top of the page? To answer my own question, cups has an lpoptions command that comes in really handy for setting the /etc/cups/lpoptions file and setting some specific text only features of CUPS printing. Here's what I have in my lpoptions file now: Default K5400 prettyprint=true page-top=72 page-left=72 \ page-right=72 page-bottom=72 cpi=13 This prints text files with a header that prints the job name, date, and page number, has margins of about one inch on all sides, and prints about 84 columns worth of text on each line. Aaron W. Hsu -- A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
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