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LPBANNER

NAME

lpbanner, pclbanner, psbanner − printer banners in text, PCL and PostScript

SYNOPSIS

lpbanner [ −l length ] [ −w width ] [ −P printer ] [ −L bannername ] [ −n loginname ] [ −h host ] [ −J jobtitle ] [ −C class ] [ −? option args ] [ all ]

DESCRIPTION

The lpbanner program is used to print a simple banner on a fixed size font printer, the pclbanner program generates a PCL banner and the psbanner program generates a PostScript banner. All information to be printed is passed using command line arguments. In order to be compatible with vintage line printer spoolers, reads a line form standard input, but ignores the information.

OPTIONS

−w width

Page width in characters (default 132).

−l length

Page length in lines (default 60).

−P printer

printer queue for banner information.

−L bannername

Name used on banner as main name.

−n loginname

Name used on banner as login name.

−h host

Name used on banner as host name.

−J jobtitle

String used on banner as main title.

−C class

String used on banner as class.

−? value

All other options and arguments provided by LPRng are ignored.

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

zero (0)

Successful completion.

non-zero (!=0)

An error occurred.

SEE ALSO

lpd.conf(5), lpc(8), lpd(8), checkpc(8), lpr(1), lpq(1), lprm(1), printcap(5), lpd.conf(5), pr(1), lprng_certs(1), lprng_index_certs(1).

AUTHOR

Patrick Powell <papowell AT lprng DOT com>.

HISTORY

LPRng is a enhanced printer spooler system with functionality similar to the Berkeley LPR software. The LPRng developer mailing list is lprng-devel AT lists DOT sourceforge DOT net; subscribe by visiting https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lprng-devel or sending mail to lprng-request AT lists DOT sourceforge DOT net with the word subscribe in the body.
The software is available via http://lprng.sourceforge.net

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