compressed printing to a laserjet from a shell program

[Madison Kelly]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:25:45AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>>  I have a text-based accounting program running on Linux (clients and 
>>server). I have an HP LaserJet 2430dtn setup and working wonderfully 
>>from GUI apps and from the command line. What I need to do, and I have 
>>limited experience printing from the shell, is get the shell program to 
>>tell the printer to print in a compressed mode.
>>
>>  I have created a second copy of the driver/queue to play with so the 
>>main printer driver should be left alone and stay working letting me 
>>experiment as I need to on the new second queue.
>>
>>  The system is FC3 and the terminal is bash.
> 
> 
> What do you mean by compressed mode?
> 
> If you mean like 2 pages on on sheet of paper, then if you have a good
> printing system (nothing beats cupsys) then you can do:
> 
> lpr -o number-up=2

... It never ceases to amaze how a problem that can be so vexing can 
have such a simple solution. That worked perfectly, thank you!

Madison

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