Authentication printing, Specifying the user name – Dell 3110cn Color Laser Printer User Manual
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To print to a printer named dell3110cn, type as follows.
% lp -d dell3110cn filename
To change the default printer temporarily for printing:
To change the default printer, set the printer name in the environment variable PRINTER.
To set a printer named dell3110cn as the default printer for printing, type as follows.
% setenv PRINTER dell3110cn
% lp filename
To print with added options:
To print with the options, specify the option of the lp command using -o as follows.
The available options are the same as txt2ps2/tiff2ps/xwd2ps2.
Depending on installed options, the available paper trays are different.
%lp -d dell3110cn -o r -o ILT filename
To print using file format:
To print text files:
% lp -d dell3110cn filename
To print XWD files:
% lp -d dell3110cn -o XWD filename
To print TIFF format files:
% lp -d dell3110cn -o TIF filename
To print PostScript files:
% lp -d dell3110cn filename
To print PostScript files as text files:
% lp -d dell3110cn -o TX filename
However, for PostScript files with options set up, such as paper selection, etc., when the same option
is specified, it will be ignored.
Authentication Printing
This section provides information on how to specify the user name used for authentication printing in
the environment variable.
Specifying the User Name