/usr/lib/cups/man/man.1/lpr.1

                                               (BSD System Compatibility)

                                   lpr(1bsd)
     _________________________________________________________________

   lpr -- (BSD) send a job to the printer 

Synopsis

   /usr/ucb/lpr [-P printer] [-# copies] [-C class] [-J job] [-T title]
        [-i [indent] ] [-w cols] [-B] [-r] [-m] [-h] [-s]
        [-filter_option] [file . . . ]

Description

   lpr forwards printer jobs to a spooling area for subsequent printing
   as facilities become available. Each printer job consists of copies of
   each file you specify. The spool area is managed by the line printer
   spooler, lpsched. lpr reads from the standard input if no files are
   specified.

  Options

   -P printer
          Send output to the named printer. Otherwise send output to the
          printer named in the PRINTER environment variable, or to the
          default printer, lp.
   -# copies
          Produce the number of copies indicated for each named file. For
          example:
   lpr -#3 index.c lookup.c
          produces three copies of index.c, followed by three copies of
          lookup.c. On the other hand,
   cat index.c lookup.c | lpr -#3
          generates three copies of the concatenation of the files.
   -C class
          Print class as the job classification on the burst page. For
          example,
   lpr -C Operations new.index.c
          replaces the system name (the name returned by ``hostname'')
          with Operations on the burst page, and prints the file
          new.index.c.
   -J job
          Print job as the job name on the burst page. Normally, lpr uses
          the first file's name.
   -T title
          Use title instead of the file name for the title used by pr(1).
   -i[indent]
          Indent output indent <Space> characters. Eight <Space>
          characters is the default.
   -w cols
          Use cols as the page width for pr.
   -r
          Remove the file upon completion of spooling, or upon completion
          of printing with the -s option. This option is not supported in
          UnixWare.
   -m
          Send mail upon completion.
   -h
          Suppress printing the burst page.
   -s
          Use the full pathnames (not symbolic links) of the files to be
          printed rather than trying to copy them. This means the data
          files should not be modified or removed until they have been
          printed. -s only prevents copies of local files from being
          made. Jobs from remote hosts are copied anyway. -s only works
          with named data files; if the lpr command is at the end of a
          pipeline, the data is copied to the spool.
   filter_option
          The following single letter options notify the line printer
          spooler that the files are not standard text files. The
          spooling daemon will use the appropriate filters to print the
          data accordingly.
        -p
               Use pr to format the files (lpr -p is very much like pr |
               lpr).
        -l
               Print control characters and suppress page breaks.
        -t
               The files contain troff(1bsd) (cat phototypesetter) binary
               data.
        -n
               The files contain data from ditroff (device independent
               troff).
        -d
               The files contain data from tex (DVI format from
               Stanford).
        -g
               The files contain standard plot data as produced by the
               routine plot(1bsd) for the filters used by the printer
               spooler.
        -v
               The files contain a raster image. The printer must support
               an appropriate imaging model such as PostScript^® in order
               to print the image.
        -c
               The files contain data produced by ``cifplot''.
        -f
               Interpret the first character of each line as a standard
               FORTRAN carriage control character.
          If no filter_option is given (and the printer can interpret
          PostScript), the string `%!' as the first two characters of a
          file indicates that it contains PostScript commands.
          These filter options offer a standard user interface, and all
          options may not be available for, nor applicable to, all
          printers.

Files

   /etc/passwd
          personal identification
   /usr/lib/lp/lpsched
          System V line printer spooler
   /var/spool/lp/tmp/*
          directories used for spooling
   /var/spool/lp/tmp/system/*-0
          spooler control files
   /var/spool/lp/tmp/system/*-N
          (N is an integer and > 0) data files specified in `*-0' files

Diagnostics

   lpr: printer: unknown printer
          The printer was not found in the LP database. Usually this is a
          typing mistake; however, it may indicate that the printer does
          not exist on the system. Use `lpstat -p' to find the reason.
   lpr: error on opening queue to spooler
          The connection to lpsched on the local machine failed. This
          usually means the printer server started at boot time has died
          or is hung. Check if the printer spooler daemon
          /usr/lib/lpsched is running.
   lpr: printer: printer queue is disabled
          This means the queue was turned off with
   /usr/etc/lpc disable printer
          to prevent lpr from putting files in the queue. This is
          normally done by the system manager when a printer is going to
          be down for a long time. The printer can be turned back on by a
          privileged user with lpc.
   lpr: Can't send message to the LP print service
   lpr: Can't establish contact with the LP print service
          These indicate that the LP print service has been stopped. Get
          help from the system administrator.
   lpr: Received unexpected message from LP print service
          It is likely there is an error in this software. Get help from
          system administrator.
   lpr: There is no filter to convert the file content
          Use the `lpstat -p -l' command to find a printer that can
          handle the file type directly, or consult with your system
          administrator.
   lpr: cannot access the file
          Make sure file names are valid.

References

   lpc(1Mbsd), lpq(1bsd), lprm(1bsd), plot(1bsd), troff(1bsd)

Notices

   lp is the preferred interface.

   Command-line options cannot be combined into a single argument as with
   some other commands. The command:
   lpr -fs

   is not equivalent to
   lpr -f -s

   Placing the -s flag first, or writing each option as a separate
   argument, makes a link as expected.

   lpr -p is not precisely equivalent to pr | lpr. lpr -p puts the
   current date at the top of each page, rather than the date last
   modified.

   Fonts for troff(1bsd) and T[E]X^® reside on the printer host. It is
   currently not possible to use local font libraries.

   lpr objects to printing binary files.

   The -s option does not use symbolic links in the compatibility
   package. Instead, the complete path names are used. Also, the copying
   is avoided only for print jobs that are run from the printer host
   itself. Jobs added to the queue from a remote host are always copied
   into the spool area. That is, if the printer does not reside on the
   host that lpr is run from, the spooling system makes a copy the file
   to print, and places it in the spool area of the printer host,
   regardless of -s.

   If userA uses su to become userB and uses /usr/ucb/lpr, then the
   printer request will be entered as userB, not userA
     _________________________________________________________________

   © 2004 The SCO Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
   UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 25 April 2004
   
See also lpr(1)