Dell 5100cn Color Laser Printer - Manual (Page 241)

and the lpstat command or how to make use of them, see the related manuals of Solaris.
Printing From Solaris
To print to the default printer:
If the printer is registered as the default printer, the name of the printer can be shortened and specified as shown in
the following example.
% lp filename
To print to other printers:
To print to a printer named dell5100cn, type as follows.
% lp -d dell5100cn filename
NOTE: The name of the printer can be confirmed by executing lpstat -v.
To change the default printer temporarily for printing:
To change the default printer, set the printer name in the environment variable LPDEST.
To set a printer named dell5100cn as the default printer for printing, type as follows.
% setenv LPDEST dell5100cn
% lp filename
NOTE: Using this method, a default printer can be set up for each user.
NOTE: The above example describes the setup method executed when csh is used.
To select a paper tray for printing:
To select a paper tray for printing, specify the paper tray after the -y option of the lp command.
NOTE: Depending on installed options, the available paper trays are different.
To select and print to a letter size paper of the printer named dell5100cn with landscape, specify as follows.
% lp -d dell5100cn -y landscape -y letter filename
The following options can be specified by the lp command.
To print text files:
NOTE: It prints according to the length and width specified by the lpadmin command.
-y double
Sets printing to 2-column printing.
-y landscape
Rotates the image by 90 o and uses the paper in the landscape orientation.
-y size= n
Sets the font size to n point.
-y outcolumn= n
This option converts text to single-byte text and sets printing to start from the nth column.
-y outline=n
Sets printing to start from the nth line.
-y font= font
Sets the font for printing single-byte alphanumeric characters. If the font specified is not available for the
printer, the default fonts are used.