Specifications

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Guide to Printers and Printing
Pitch Pitch selection is supported for the PCL emulation by using the –p flag for
pitch and the –s flag for font name (or type face). 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 files 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 can be found in /usr/lib/ps/fontmap.
Valid point sizes are any integer from 1 to 1008.
Only a pitch of 17 is supported for the lineprinter font style.
Collation Normally, the –N command line option is used to specify the number of
copies desired. This method will cause that many copies of the entire
print job to be submitted or queued to the print system. Because the
Optra Color 40 supports collation internally, options were added to
support it and the number of copies of each page internally. This
functionality– is limited by the amount of memory installed in your printer
and the size of the job. The –W# option determines how many copies of
each page is desired, where # is the number of copies. The –S [!/+]
option controls whether collation is desired. The default is ! (or not). The
main advantages of using the –W and –S options are to conserve printer
subsystem usage and allow the printer to handle multiple copies instead
of sending # copies to the printer. Using the –S! options with –W# also
allows # copies of each page in a row, if that is desired. Note that using
–N and –W simultaneously is allowed. This would result in –N print jobs
with –W copies of each page in each job.
Separator
Pages
The –E flag controls separator pages. The valid values are 0, 1, 2, and 3
which represent NONE, BETWEENCOPIES, BETWEENJOBS, and
BETWEENPAGES respectively. The paper source for separator pages is
set via the colon file attribute uS and defaults to TRAY 1. The valid values
for uS are the same as uH and uT, except manual feed is not a valid
source for separator pages. To change the default the uS attribute must
be changed in the virtual printer to one of the valid values (see paper
source above).