Linux LPR Online Help

Overview

Linux LPR is a program designed as a replacement for the popular 'lpr' command-line tool traditionally used as the interface by applications to submit jobs to the printing system. LLPR tries to be fully compatible with this command, while providing a user-friendly graphical user interface, and also many additional features that 'lpr' doesn't traditionally offer.

Upon installation, LLPR is set up so that it will override the 'lpr' command, so that every program that tries to call 'lpr' will actually be using LLPR, thus providing the user with a friendly interface. When a graphical environment is not available, LLPR will just pass along the jobs to the printing system without user interaction, just like 'lpr' would.

Main job options

Printer selection

The pull-down menu allows to choose the printer to which the job will be sent. Various pieces of information about the selected printer are displayed below, including its current state, model, location and description.

The currently selected printer can be made the user's default by clicking on Set as default. Then, future calls to the LLPR command will have this printer selected upon startup.

The Web page for the printer can also be accessed from this portion of the dialog.

Page Selection

This section of the dialog allows the user to specify what pages from the job should be printed.

Even pages (number 2,4,6,...), odd pages (number 1,3,5,... and so on), or a specific range can be chosen.
The range is a list of page numbers and ranges separated by commas.
For example: 1,2-5,10-13,25,26

Copies

Multiple copies of the same job can be sent to the printer at the same time.

The user can specify the exact number of copies, and how they will be processed.

Collating the copies means that each copy of the job will be processed independently. When not collating, each page is duplicated before printing the next page.

Reverse Order allows to print the last copies before the first ones.

Printing

By clicking on OK, the print job is started and sent to the printing system.

Setting printer properties

By clicking on the "Properties..." button, the user is taken to a dialog that allows him to fine-tune LLPR settings for the printer.

Click here for details

Command Line Reference

LLPR is fully compatible with the regular 'lpr' command-line options. Here is a brief summary of the supported options and their meanings :

General usage : lpr [options] [file1 file2 ...]

If no files or '-' is given on the command line, the standard input will be used. Options can be :

Other 'lpr' command-line options are currently ignored by LLPR.