4 PRINTING FROM UNIX

‰Page Length

The number of lines to print on a page can be specified with the following option.

Option Value

Alternate Value

Description

 

 

 

pl=value

 

Set the lines per page to value.

 

 

 

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”.

‰Color Mode

The color mode for printing mode can be selected using the following options.

Option Value

Alternate Value

Description

 

 

 

 

colormode=

color

Set color mode printing for the print mode.

COLOR

 

 

 

 

 

 

colormode=

grayscale

Set grayscale mode printing for the print mode.

GRAYSCALE

 

 

 

 

 

 

colormode=

auto

Set auto color mode printing for the print mode.

AUTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

colormode=

2kr

Set twin color mode (Black and Red) printing for the

2KR

 

print mode.

 

 

 

 

 

colormode=

2kg

Set twin color mode (Black and Green)

printing for the

2KG

 

print mode.

 

 

 

 

colormode=

2kb

Set twin color mode (Black and Blue) printing for the

2KB

 

print mode.

 

 

 

 

 

colormode=

2kc

Set twin color mode (Black and Cyan)

printing for the

2KC

 

print mode.

 

 

 

 

colormode=

2km

Set twin color mode (Black and Magenta) printing for

2KM

 

the print mode.

 

 

 

 

 

colormode=

2ky

Set twin color mode (Black and Yellow)

printing for the

2KY

 

print mode.

 

 

 

 

 

colormode=

2kw

Set twin color mode (Black and White)

printing for the

2KW

 

print mode.

 

 

 

 

 

Example: The command to set the color mode for the print job is “lp -o colormode=COLOR filename”

‰Pure Black and Pure Gray

The pure black and pure gray mode can be selected using the following options.

Option Value

Alternate Value

Description

 

 

 

pureblackgray=0

 

Disable the pure black and pure gray mode.

 

 

 

pureblackgray=1

 

Enable the pure black and pure gray mode.

 

 

 

Example: The command to set the pure black and pure gray mode for the print job is “lp -o pureblackgray=1 filename”

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