HP Distributed Print Service User's Guide

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Basic Printing Tasks
Specifying Attributes for HPDPS Print Jobs
you do not specify the content-orientation attribute, HPDPS prints
your job in portrait orientation. To submit the file File1 to the default
logical printer and specify landscape orientation, enter:
pdpr -x "content-orientation=landscape" File1
Specifying the Document Format for a Job
Use -x document-format=Format with the pdpr command to specify
the document format of your job. HPDPS accepts jobs in different
document formats such as PostScript, PCL, and ASCII. If you do not
specify the document format of the job when you submit the print
request, HPDPS automatically tries to determine the format and process
the request accordingly. This saves you time when entering print
commands from the command line. It is also an advantage if you are not
sure of the data format of the job. There can be times when you need to
explicitly tell HPDPS the document format of your job. If HPDPS cannot
determine the document format, it treats the file as ASCII data and the
printed results may not be acceptable. In such cases, you should specify
the document format.
For example, to submit file PSFile2 to the default logical printer and
specify the document format PostScript, enter:
pdpr -x "document-format=ps" PSFile2
Specifying Number of Images on a Page
Use -x number-up=NumberOfImages to specify the number of images
on a page. The value for NumberOfImages can be 1, 2, 3, or 4.
For example, to print File1 with an image displaying on each half of a
page for a total of two images per page, enter:
pdpr -x "number-up=2" File1
Printing Multiple Documents in a Single Job
To print jobs that contain more than one document, you can either
specify the name of each document with the pdpr command, or, you can
create a reference file that lists each document.