Landscape Printing

[Midrange]

Hi there, i just want to ask if it is possible to set the printing orientation to landscape or portrait. I have set up my queue using the ip printer HP.

Please advise..thanks

 

[crowe]

I think you will need to set up a seperate print queue pointing to the sam printer device/IP. Each printer queue has user defined "default" characteristics. You should be able to use smit to set up the second print queue as well as define the options for that queue.


crowe

 

[Midrange]

thanks crowe, but how can i set it on the print queue.
What parameters or description do i need to change?

 

[rneve]

To change the page orientation do the following:
# smitty printer
- Printer spooling
- Change / Show Print Queue Characteristics
- Select printer queue
- 2 Default Print Job Attributes

Change the Page Orientation:

------------- Paper/Page Options --------------
Page ORIENTATION portrait

Good luck.

 

[Midrange]

thanks rneve, I can see the parameters Page options but i cannot changed it since there is no default parameters.
DO you think do i need to load any filesets to support the page orientation or any other way i can do?

tnx..

 

[rneve]

The filesets I have installed are:

bos.html.en_US.manage_gds.printers
bos.rte.printers 4.3.3.78 COMMITTED Front End Printer Support
printers.hpJetDirect.attach
printers.hplj-4+.rte 4.3.3.0 COMMITTED Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4
printers.msg.en_US.rte 4.3.1.1 COMMITTED Printer Backend Messages -
printers.rte 4.3.3.75 COMMITTED Printer Backend
bos.rte.printers 4.3.3.75 COMMITTED Front End Printer Support
printers.rte 4.3.3.75 COMMITTED Printer Backend

Offcourse it is also depending on which printer you ware using. I'm using a HP laserjet printer and it's working fine...

Regards Richard

 

[Midrange]

thanks for the information. My printer is now working.
I only found out that the page orientation is only applicable to laser jet printers..

 

[jwtesch]

It depends on if you are using a text (PCL) queue, or a PostScript queue and if you are using a local or remote printer.

The qprt command is the 'virtual printer' command and for a printer that has the capability, you can switch a text based printer with 'qprt -z+ -Pqueue filename'. or -z1

You don't have to create separate queues. I you use the lp or the enq commands, then you can use the -o -z+ flag
lp -o-z+ -d<queue> file

Then of course at AIX 5 you could be doing System V printing. With PostScript files, usually the orientation is set inside the file and you can't change it from a queue.