HID DTC1000/4000/4500 User Guide LINUX & MAC - Manual (Page 24)

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DTC1000/DTC4000/DTC4500 CUPS Driver User Guide - LINUX (L001452, Rev 1.2) 24
Managing from the Cups Web Interface
The Web printer management interface is located at:
http://localhost:631/printers
From there you can perform all printer management tasks with a few simple mouse clicks.
Setting Options with Cups using Command-Line
Printer-Specific Options:
Each printer has its own options that are based on the options in the PPD (driver) file. The
lpoptions command provides a way to see a list of the available options:
lpoptions -p DTC4000 -1
Each option starts with the option name, a slash, the human readable text for that option, and
a colon. This is followed by a list of values for that option. The asterisk (*) in from of the value
indicates that this is the default setting. The options themselves follow the colon:
Setting Printer Options:
For many types of files, the default printer options may be sufficient for your needs. However,
at times you may need to change the options for a particular file you are printing. Cups
provides both System V (lp) and Berkeley (lpr) printing commands.
The lp and lpr commands allow you to pass printer options using the –o options:
lp -d [printer] -o landscape -o scaling=75 -o media=A4 [filename]
OR
lpr -P [printer] -o landscape -o scaling=75 -o media=A4 [filename]