NAME¶
lpbanner, pclbanner, psbanner - printer banners in text, PCL and PostScript
SYNOPSIS¶
lpbanner [
-l length ] [
-w width ] [
-P
printer ] [
-L bannername ] [
-n
loginname ] [
-h host ] [
-J jobtitle ]
[
-C class ] [
-? option args ] [ all ]
DESCRIPTION¶
The
lpbanner program is used to print a simple banner on a fixed size
font printer, the
pclbanner program generates a PCL banner and the
psbanner program generates a PostScript banner. All information to be
printed is passed using command line arguments. In order to be compatible with
vintage line printer spoolers, reads a line form standard input, but ignores
the information.
OPTIONS¶
- -w width
- Page width in characters (default 132).
- -l length
- Page length in lines (default 60).
- -P printer
- printer queue for banner information.
- -L bannername
- Name used on banner as main name.
- -n loginname
- Name used on banner as login name.
- -h host
- Name used on banner as host name.
- -J jobtitle
- String used on banner as main title.
- -C class
- String used on banner as class.
- -? value
- All other options and arguments provided by LPRng are
ignored.
EXIT STATUS¶
The following exit values are returned:
- zero (0)
- Successful completion.
- non-zero (!=0)
- An error occurred.
SEE ALSO¶
lpd.conf(5),
lpc(8),
lpd(8),
checkpc(8),
lpr(1),
lpq(1),
lprm(1),
printcap(5),
lpd.conf(5),
pr(1),
lprng_certs(1),
lprng_index_certs(1).
AUTHOR¶
Patrick Powell <papowell@lprng.com>.
HISTORY¶
LPRng is a enhanced printer spooler system with functionality similar to the
Berkeley LPR software. The LPRng developer mailing list is
lprng-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; subscribe by visiting
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lprng-devel or sending
mail to
lprng-request@lists.sourceforge.net with the word
subscribe in the body.
The software is available via
http://lprng.sourceforge.net