4L User Manual
#4L-cli mediainfo /dev/sr0
Media present: 1
Lightscribe media: 0
Oriented for labeling: 0
#4L-cli mediainfo /dev/sr1
Media present: 1
Lightscribe media: 1
Oriented for labeling: 1
Shape: disc_12cm
Manufacturer ID: 112
Print area inner radius: 23800
Print area outer radius: 58700
2.3 Printing information
The printing process is dependent on both the drive and the media in it. the
print info
subcommand allows to retrieve information dependent on
this combination and several printing parameters, as the printing quality, whether printing can be optimized or is only generic, and labeling
mode. This information includes the labeling area dimensions, and the maximum print resolution.
The command usage is:
4L-cli printinfo [-q <best|medium|draft>] [-m <title|content|full>] <drive_path>
Besides the drive path, the accepted parameters are:
• the optional
-q/--quality
, followed by draft, medium or best, that can affect the print resolution.
• the optional labeling mode
-m/--mode
, followed by title, content or full (full is the default), affecting the printing area boundaries.
#4L-cli printinfo -q draft /dev/sr1
Generic only: 0
Generic print inner radius: 25050
Generic print outer radius: 36500
Generic print resolution: 600
Optimized print inner radius: 25050
Optimized print outer radius: 36500
Optimized print resolution: 600
If the media is more recent than the installed LightScribe software, it may happen that only generic printing is available. In this case, only the
generic values will be present in the output.
2.4 Printing
The main functionnality of
4L-cli
is obviously label printing. The
subcommand is used here. Its usage is
:
4L-cli print
[-q <best|medium|draft>]
[-g]
[-s <fit_auto|fit_height|fit_width|no_fit|DPI>]
[-m <title|content|full>]
<drive_path> <input_image>
Arguments are:
• optional
-q/--quality
: defines the quality of the printing
• optional
-g/--generic
: force printing in generic mode. If the optimized mode is not available, this option MUST be set, or the printing will fail.
This is to avoid printing a label in generic mode by mistake.
• optional
-s/--size
: specify the image size setting to use for the printing
• optional
-m/--mode
: specify the labeling mode, the default is full.
•
fit_auto
will fit the smallest dimension of the image to the media, this is the default behaviour.
•
fit_width
will fit the width of the image to the media.
•
fit_height
will fit the height of the image to the media.
•
no_fit
will not perform any scaling, but use the resolution written in the image header. If the resolution is not set in the image, printing will fail.
•
DPI
is a decimal integer value that allows you to manually select the resolution to use with the image. This is not the printing resolution,
but gives the final dimension of the image on the media.
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