printtool - is the utility available on the GUI for performing printer configuration, also an option is made available on the CUI in the setup menu. Either of these options can be used to perform the configuration. This inturn generates a capture file under the directory /etc/ with the name printcap.
Command | ipr | Purpose | Off line print. | Synopsis | ipr [options] files |
Description:
Send files to the printer spool queue.
Options:
-c | The files are assumed to contain data produced by cifplot(1) . | -d | The files are assumed to contain data from text. | -f | Use a filter which interprets the first character of each line as a standard FORTRAN carriage control character. | -g | The files are assumed to contain standard plot data as produced by the plot routines. | -l | Use a filter which allows control characters to be printed and suppresses page breaks | -n | The files are assumed to contain data from ditroff (device i ndependent troff). | -p | Use pr(1) to format the files (equivalent to print). | -t | The files are assumed to contain data from troff(1) ( cat photo-t ypesetter commands). | -v | The files are assumed to contain a raster image for devices tike the Benson Varian. |
Additional Options For Handling Of The Print Job: -P | Force output to a specific printer. Normally, the default printer is used (site dependent), or the value of the environment variable PRINTER is used. | -h | Suppress the printing of the burst page. | -m | Send mail upon completion. | -r | Remove the file upon completion of spooling. Cannot be used with the -s option, due to security concerns. | -J job | Job name to print on the burst page. Normally, the first file's name is used. | -T title | Title name for pr(1) , instead of the file name. | -U user | User name to print on the burst page, also for accounting purposes. This option is only honoured if the real user-id is daemon (or that specified in the printcap file instead of daemon), and is intended for those instances where print filters wish to requeue jobs. | -i [numcols] | The output is indented. If the next argument is numeric (numcols), it is used as the number of blanks to be printed before each line; otherwise, 8 characters are printed. | -wnum | Uses num as the page width for pr(1) . |
Command | lpq | Purpose | Spool queue examination program. | Synopsis | ipr [options] files |
Description: The lpq command examines the spooling area used by lpd(8) for printing files on the line printer, and reports the status of the specified jobs or all jobs associated with a user, lpq invoked without any arguments reports on any jobs currently in the queue.
Options:
-P | Specify a particular printer, otherwise the default line printer is used (or the value of the PRINTER variable in the environment). All other arguments supplied are interpreted as user names or job numbers to filter out only those jobs of interest. | -l | Information about each of the files comprising the job entry is printed. Normally, only as much information as will fit on one line is displayed. |
Command | lprm | Purpose | Remove jobs from the line printer spooling queue. | Synopsis | lprm [options] [job #] [user] |
Description: The lprm command will remove a job, or jobs, from a printer's spool queue. Since the spoofing directory is protected from users, using lprm is normally the only method by which a user may remove a job.
Options:
-P printer | Specify the queue associated with a specific printer (otherwise the default printer is used), if a single '-' is given, lprm will remove all jobs which a user owns. If the superuser employs this flag, the spool queue will be emptied entirely. | user | Causes lprm to attempt to remove any jobs queued belonging to that user (or users). This form of invoking lprm is useful only to the super-user. | job # | A user may dequeue an individual job by specifying its job number. |
If neither arguments nor options are given, lprm will delete the currently active job if the user who invoked lprm owns it .
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Linux Printer Commands 
