printing landscape, changing cpi and lpi

[bi]

I have tried every variation of the lp command I can think of to print in landscape. I have used:

lp -olandscape /etc/passwd, lp -o landscape /etc/passwd, lp -o length=8.5i -o width=11i -o cpi=12 -o lpi=8 /etc/passwd. I tried lp -o cpi=elite /etc/passwd to just try to get it in the smaller type.

The output always comes out as if I had typed lp /etc/passwd: portrait instead of landscape and 10 cpi.

I know the printer is capable of printing landscape with 12 cpi and 8 lpi because it does it from an AIX system. This is an hplaser printer and content type is simple. I have checked the Solaris System Administrator's Guide and the Advanced System Administrator's Guide and can't find the answer.

What am I doing wrong? Is there some file I can edit to change my default pitch and page size? This would be a last resort because I would want to make the changes on the fly rather than have them be permanent.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[mikeclark]

You can create another logical printer pointing to the same physical and edit the interface file to make it landscape. Then have printerA and printerAL for landscape.

 

[neffann]

I used lp with -ylandscape, and it worked that way.