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Revision as of 15:48, 12 June 2007
I don't print from the command-line a lot. This is the minimal I usually need to know to get something printed.
listing installed printers
lpstat -p
That will show something like the following. The important information is the printer name (NetworOptra-E321).
printer NetworkOptra-E321 is idle. enabled since Tue 12 Jun 2007 03:42:31 PM PDT
printing to a named printer
You can print a document by specifying the printer name on the command-line:
lpr -P NetworkOptra-E321 my_document.txt
Or you can set the default printer with the PRINTER environment variable.
export PRINTER=NetworkOptra-E321
lpr -P NetworkOptra-E321 my_document.txt