NAME¶
hpset —
printer commands
SYNOPSIS¶
| hpset |
[-hco]
[commands ...] |
DESCRIPTION¶
hpset is used to send commands to a printer. These commands
are synonyms for ESC Codes based on the PCL standard from Hewlet Packard.
Options¶
- -c
- redirect output to stdout
- -oname
- redirect output into the specified file or device
redirect
- -h
- prints a help message
Commands¶
- back
- Puts every setting back to the printer defaults.
- test
- Starts the self test.
- out
- If paper is inside the printer it will be thrown out.
- cr
- activates the linefeed
- lbon
- acivates the linebreak.
- leftright
- forces the printer to print only from left to right.
- rightleft
- forces the printer to print only from right to left.
- bidirect
- forces the printer in both ways.
- execoff
- The following commands are not executed but printed.
- execon
- The following commands are executed.
- nice
- High quality printing.
- econo
- Enables fast and economic printing.
- landscape
- Printing in landscape format.
- portrait
- Printing in portrait format.
- lpinum
- Sets the lines per inch. For num use 6 or 8.
The following commands must be sent in the given order and sequence. The
sequence looks like,
hpset [characterset] [characterdistance] [character density]
[point size] [type position] [line strength] [type]
- -Characterset
- english ISO 4 ansi ANSI ASCII ISO 6 sweden ISO 10 italian ISO 15 spain ISO 17 german ISO 21 france ISO 69
- -Characterdistance
- prop Proportional fix Fixed
If you've chosen proportional you don't have to set the character density.
- -Characterdensity
- cpi# # is one of 5,6,10,12,16,16.67,20,24
- -Pointsize
- point# # is one of 4.75,5,6,7,8,9.5,10,12,14,19,24
- -Typeposition
- italic upright
- -Linestrength
- bold normal
- -Type
- courier times gothic univers
Notice that not every combination of the commands above is possible. Refer
to the manual of HPSET where you can find a table with allowed combinations.
SEE ALSO¶
lpr(1),
lpd(1),
BUGS¶
report them to michael.janson@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
