Specifications

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Guide to Printers and Printing
Paper Type The Optra Plus printer supports paper types: rough, normal (default),
transparency, labels, and cardstock using the –y parameter of the qprt
command or the _y attribute in the colon file.
–y 1
Rough
–y 2
Normal (default)
–y 3
Transparency
–y 4
Labels
–y 5
Cardstock
Print
Resolution
The Optra Plus printer supports print resolution of 300, 600, and 1200 dpi
using the –q flag of the qprt command. The default is 600 dpi.
–q
300
–q
600
–q
1200
Pitch Pitch selection is supported for the PCL 5 emulation by using the –p flag
for pitch and the –s flag for font name with the qprt command. Pitch
values between 1 and 100 characters per inch (cpi) in whole integers are
supported. The condensed print flag, –K, is not supported.
Font Name
Pitch
–s courier
–p (1 to 100)
–s courier–bold
–p (1 to 100)
– s courier–italic
–p (1 to 100)
–s courier–bold italic
–p (1 to 100)
–s gothic
–p (1 to 100)
–s gothic–bold
–p (1 to 100)
– s gothic–italic
–p (1 to 100)
–s lineprinter
–p 17
Note: To format ASCII for other font styles, use the base operating
system enscript utility or the qprt command with the –da, –s, and –p
flags to a PostScript queue. For PostScript queues, –p stands for point
size and the valid list of fonts are located in /usr/lib/ps/fontmap. Valid
point sizes are any integer from 1 to 1008.
Also, only a pitch of 17 is supported for the lineprinter font style.