4 PRINTING FROM UNIX/Linux178 Printing From Application CollateThe collate option can be selected using the following options.f this option is not specified, the default value of “collate=on” will be used.Example: The command to select collate off is “lp -o collate=off ”. OrientationThe following orientation options are available.If this option is not specified the command will not be sent so the printer’s default value will be used.Example: The command to specify landscape orientation is “lp -o landscape ”. Font PitchIf the pitch is specified the net_estcolor program will always select the Courier font; otherwise the default font is used. Thefollowing options are used to select the font pitch.In all the cases shown above the Courier font will also be selected. When the pitch is changed, the font size willautomatically be scaled to the appropriate size.If this option is not specified, the default pitch and font will be used.Example: The command to specify 8 characters per inch is “lp -o pitch=8 ”. Page LengthThe number of lines to print on a page can be specified with the following option.As this equipment is a page printer we cannot change the physical length of a piece of paper so the actual effect of thiscommand is to after the value for lines per inch so that the requested number of lines is printed on the page. The actualpage length may differ from this value if the top margin or the text length option is used.If this option is not specified the PJL command will not be sent so the printer’s default value will be used. The minimumpage length allowable is 5. If value is less than 5, the page length is set to 5.The command to specify 66 lines per page is “lp -o pl=66 ”.Option Value Alternate Value Descriptioncollate=off OFF Cancel the collate printing mode.collate=on ON Set the collate printing mode.Option Value Alternate Value Descriptionportrait Print the document in portrait orientation.landscape Print the document in landscape orientation.Option Value Alternate Value Descriptionc pitch=16.67 Set the character pitch to 16.67 characters per inch.10 pitch=10 Set the character pitch to 10 characters per inch.12 pitch=12 Set the character pitch to 12 characters per inch.pitch=value Set the character pitch to value characters per inch.Option Value Alternate Value Descriptionpl=value Set the lines per page to value.
