Changing the left and right margin in AIX queue

[muammar]

Hi Everybody,
I would like to change the left and right margins in AIX 4.3.3 printer queue. I found the Top and Bottom margins from the smit but I could not find the left and right margins.

could any one please tell me how to do it?

Regards,
muammar

 

[jwtesch]

To set the left margin for an ASCII text queue use the indent flag "qprt -i5" for example will indent by 5 characters. The right margin is set by the 'width' of the page or the "qprt -w80" flag would set the total width to 80 characters. If you want 5 less on your 80 column page, then use 'qprt -i5 -w75" when printing. First test that this works, and then you can make the changes in smit.

The width parameter is called "columns per page" in smit.
The indent is "number of columns to indent".

The virtual printer doesn't have a setting that is a true margin setup for most printers. You could always add the PCL codes (or whatever lang your printer is) to the ci attribute, but then you would need to make sure that you changed the columns per page to match.