Oce im5530, Printing Manual

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7 Printing from UNIX
346 Printing from an Application
Font Pitch
If the pitch is specified the net_estbw program will always select the Courier font; otherwise the
default font is used. The following options are used to select the font pitch.
In all the cases shown above the Courier font will also be selected. When the pitch is changed
the font size will automatically be scaled to the appropriate size.
If this option is not specified, the default pitch and font will be used.
Example: The command to specify 8 characters per inch is “lp -o pitch=8
filename ”.
Page Length
The number of lines to print on a page can be specified with the following option.
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 ”.
Halftone
The halftone can be selected using the following options.
Example: The command to set the auto halftone for the print job is
“lp -o halftone=AUTO
filename ”
PCL5e Specific Options
Some of the options only apply to plain text or PCL5e files.
Option Value
Alternate
Value
Description
c pitch=16.67 Set the character pitch to 16.67 characters per inch.
10 pitch=10 Set the character pitch to 10 characters per inch.
12 pitch=12 Set the character pitch to 12 characters per inch.
pitch=value Set the character pitch to value characters per inch.
Option Value
Alternate
Value
Description
pl=value Set the lines per page to value.
Option Value
Alternate
Value
Description
halftone=AUTO Set the proper halftone depending on the contents in
the document automatically.
halftone=DETAIL Set the halftone in detail.
halftone=
SMOOTH Set the halftone smoothly.