I asked here some months ago how to print and check results with lp command (CUPS) in Ubuntu. After few working around, I was able to print normal text files. I was able to print selecting some options (double sided print, media size, paper tray input, etc.) I got the linux drivers here (PPD files): https://www.openprinting.org/download/PPD/ Now I have a little problem: When I send a .pdf file to the printer (Ricoh MP Aficio 1106 EX connected by TCP-IP), the print goes slow, getting +30 seconds to send the file to the printer. The .txt files print at the moment I send them. Do you have any idea how to solve it? I tryied change the socket of the machine to 9100 port, but that only generates errors. EDIT1: I tryied using LPR command, instead LP: lpr -sPrinterIP /absolute/path/to/file.pdf But works slowly too. EDIT2: I installed qz-tray, a kind of print server/API. When I try PDF demo, it prints slow too. EDIT3: I tryied now with default PDF viewer (EVINCE) because I though I have a lack of memory and printed the same file. It worked well, at normal speed. EDIT4: I tyied some other drivers (generic and recomended by the printer maker ones), same speed. EDIT5: I found this link: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Filters_to_Print_with_CUPS But cannot understand if filtering is "f..king me off", because my printer is a PCL one (and i am using a pxl driver...). Could anyone explain me this? EDIT 6: Found the origin of the problem: When I print a text-only-pdf file, it works like a charm. But when I send an image-pdf file, the print enters in a pre-print process (I cannot completely assure this) and get +30seconds to send any package to printer (this checked with wireshark). I can asume that PPD file (driver file provided by Ricoh Support) has anything in the code that send any order to process the file. I found this in the PPD file. I think is the root of this slowing problem: *%========== Ghostscript Command line ========== *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "(printf '\033%%-12345X@PJL\n@PJL JOB\n@PJL SET COPIES=&copies;\n'%G|perl -p -e "s/\x26copies\x3b/1/" (gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dNOMEDIAATTRS -dNOINTERPOLATE %B%A%C %D%E | perl -p -e "s/^\x1b\x25-12345X//" | perl -p -e "s/\xc1\x01\x00\xf8\x31\x44/\x44/g" (printf '@PJL\n@PJL EOJ\n\033%%-12345X&apos" *End Found this article https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-foomatic/2012/002791.html taht confirms my ideas: the ppd driver is rendering all files with ghostcript. EDIT 7: Ricoh support told me that "lp" printing command may be using "default PDF viewer" to process the file, and slow the print process. I don't know how to check it. Thanks a lot.

Lp will not print an image to a printer when the image is stored as a jpeg. If I convert the image using convert image.jpeg image.png and then lp image.png, then lp will print the png to my printer. But, lp image.jpeg fails to queue any print job or show any error. General web reports that lp can print a jpeg, but my Debian 13 basic install won't do it and such has been the case many years of previous installs. I could create a function which converts a jpeg to a png automatically, but I imagine lp uses libraries to convert files for printing. I have no idea how lp performs basic conversion or what toolboxes it uses. What do I need to install to enable lp to directly print jpeg image files? * I am using the cups printing system and systemctl status cups.service says that the service is active and the scheduler is running. * file -bi reports image/jpeg; charset=binary for the images that lp cannot print. * apt-cache policy cups-filters-core-drivers says that the latest trixie/main and sid/main package candidate, version 1.28.17-6 is installed.

I use Epson WF 7510 printer, and I can print in any quality I choose (draft/normal/best) using system tools (OS X). But I cannot change the quality of printing in command line: lp -o EPIJ_Qual=... has no effect. How can I change the quality of print? The output of lpoptions -l is as follows: EPIJ_PSrc/Page Setup: *2 3 EPIJ_Size/Paper Size: 1 74 76 6 23 *0 10 2 3 70 28 29 97 7 25 27 112 26 4 5 EPIJ_Medi/Media Type: *0 12 92 13 15 97 117 93 EPIJ_Ink_/Grayscale: *1 0 EPIJ_Mode/Mode: *0 3 EPIJ_APri/Automatic: 0 *1 2 EPIJ_Manu/Custom: *0 EPIJ_Qual/Print Quality: 301 302 303 *304 305 306 307 EPIJ_Hori/Mirror Image: *0 1 EPIJ_CMat/Color Settings: *0 1 2 3 EPIJ_CCor/Mode: 3 *6 EPIJ_Gamm/Gamma: 0 *1 EPIJ_UEpL/EPSON Color LUT: *0 1 EPIJ_ERGB/E-RGB: *0 1 EPIJ_ECAv/Advanced Settings: *0 1 EPIJ_Brit/Brightness: -25 -24 -23 -22 -21 -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 EPIJ_Cont/Contrast: -25 -24 -23 -22 -21 -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 EPIJ_Satu/Saturation: -25 -24 -23 -22 -21 -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 EPIJ_Cyan/Cyan: -25 -24 -23 -22 -21 -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 EPIJ_Mage/Magenta: -25 -24 -23 -22 -21 -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 EPIJ_Yell/Yellow: -25 -24 -23 -22 -21 -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 EPIJ_ATon/Scene Correction: *7 11 12 13 4 8 EPIJ_AFil/Sharpen: *0 1 EPIJ_AGai/Sharpness Option: *1 2 EPIJ_ACam/Digital Camera Correction: *0 1 EPIJ_DCCT/Image Purelyzer Option: *0 1 EPIJ_OSColMat/ColorMatching: *1 2 EPIJ_HdofClSp/Use Generic RGB: 0 *1 EPIJ_OSCMProf/CustomColorMatchingProfile: *0 1 2 3 EPIJ_REye/Fix Red-Eye: *0 1 EPIJ_Bdls/Borderless: *0 1 EPIJ_exmg/Expansion: 0 1 *2 EPIJProfileSpec/EPSON Profile: *0 1 ColorModel/ColorModel: *RGB Mono MediaType/MediaType: *0 12 92 13 15 97 117 93 Resolution/Resolution: 120x120dpi 360x360dpi *720x720dpi PageSize/Media Size: *A4 A4.NMgn EPKG EPKG.NMgn EPPhotoPaper2L EPPhotoPaper2L.NMgn A6 A5 A3 A3.NMgn EP13x19 EP13x19.NMgn B4 B5 EPPhotoPaperLRoll EPPhotoPaperLRoll.NMgn EPIndexCard5x8 EP8x10in EPHiVision102x180 EPHiVision102x180.NMgn EP100x148mm EP100x148mm.NMgn Env10 EnvDL EnvC4 EnvC6 Letter Legal Custom.WIDTHxHEIGHT EPIJ_BSSv/Skip Blank Page: *0 1 EPIJ_Silt/Quiet Mode: *0 1 EPIJ_BkPr/Permit temporary black printing: *0 1 EPIJ_OPT_Bi_D/High Speed Printing: 0 *1 EPIJ_ENAL/Warning Notifications: 1-0_2-0_3-0_4-0 *1-1_2-1_3-1_4-1 Usage of other options like -o EPIJ_Hori=1 has effect.

The Situation ----------------- I'm trying to print on a [Brother QL-570](https://support.brother.com/g/b/producttop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=lpql570eus "Brother support page") I set up on a Raspberry Pi using CUPS. The printer is working well using lp -d Brother_QL-570 test.pdf. However, when I insert an endless label (a 30m long, 62mm wide label) I want it to print the exact length of the pdf file. For example, if the pdf provided has a format of 62x200, I want the printer to produce a 62mmx200mm long label. If I use my Windows machine this works, but with lp, it doesn't. lpoptions -p Brother_QL-570 -l yields the following: https://pastebin.com/yBJHw7a7 . CUPS has [these settings](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R5uMX46Qfb52yDMFanejrm6Em7EVoYKj/view?usp=sharing) The printed label is always 62mmx100mm. I did use brpapertoollpr_ql570 -P Brother_QL-570 -n long_label -w 62 -h 200 in combination with lpr -P Brother_QL-570 -o media=long_label test.pdf to successfully to print 62mmx200mm labels, but creating a new media size for every new pdf I want to print would be quite tedious. Log files ----------------- Job 26 is from windows (working) Job 27 is from lpr (too short) [CUPS error_log](https://pastebin.com/SUdu1wDj) printjob-data captured following [this guide](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems#Capturing_print_job_data) job 26 job 27

I have a setup that worked fine (on Synology NAS), until a recent update. lp can apparently not print, even though the printer seems to exist okay:

$ lpstat -p -d
printer HP8210 is idle.  enabled since Fri 25 Feb 2022 11:35:36 AM CET
printer HP8740 is idle.  enabled since Mon 28 Feb 2022 10:28:47 AM CET

$ ls -l /opt/bin/lp 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18568 Oct  7  2018 /opt/bin/lp

$ /opt/bin/lp -d HP8740
/opt/bin/lp: No such file or directory

$ echo "foo" | /opt/bin/lp -d HP8740 2>&1
/opt/bin/lp: No such file or directory

I assume that "No such file or directory" means that something is incorrect regarding the printer/device configuration? It is reported here as an incorrect/inadequate output: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811716 Looks lpr works fine, though. How can that be troubleshot? Edit: Added ls output, lpr output, and link to issue reported against lp on the output message.

I'm trying to use this old technology called USB ;) I call it old because all the tutorial that I find on-line deal with wireless printers or IP ones. The man for lpadmin is very unclear how to go about adding a USB printer, and so I come here for some help. When I print dmesg I can see my printer being detected over USB usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 7 using dwc_otg usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, idProduct=2b17 usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 1-1.3: Product: HP LaserJet 1020 usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard usb 1-1.3: SerialNumber: FN0JW5E usblp 1-1.3:1.0: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 7 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x2B17 # My question is How can I add it, because it seams this command is adding the printer but there is no communication, and I'm not sure if I have malformed the USB part:

lpadmin -p HP1020 -E -v "usb://Hewlett-Packard/HP%20LaserJet%201020?serial=FN0JW5E" -m lsb/usr/hplip/HP/hp-laserjet_1020-hpijs.ppd

Also, what would be the simplest command to check if I can communicate with the printer. I don't need to print anything, just to be able to see there is communication. This will help me debug the drivers.

I have a two-sided, us-letter format document that I'd like to print two copies at once, by resizing it to half letter (a.k.a. [statement, or organizer L](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#Half_letter)) . My current workflow is very inconvenient: - The original document is two-sided, A, B, C, etc. - Using PDFSam's [mix-pdf](https://pdfsam.org/mix-pdf/) , duplicate each page (so that the document is A, A, B, B, C, C, …), - Using pdfjam, resize the document and have two pages by page (so that I have A A on the same page, on landscape mode, one of top of the other, etc.), - Print using lp -o sides=two-sided-long-edge. I am sure there is a simpler way to achieve this, but couldn't find it. An additional hurdle of my current way of doing is that pdfjam introduces extra margin, that I have to remove using trim.

When I use an old printer via the lp module, and after having loaded the module modprobe lp, if I output characters to the lp0 module, echo 1>lp0, my computer desktop gets stuck, (but connecting to my computer remotely is not a problem) This is my dmesg log: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU rcu: 0-....: (1 GPs behind) idle=866/0/0x7 softirq=37271/37271 fqs=6350 (t=15000 jiffies g=56737 q=16517) Task dump for CPU 0: task:swapper/0 state:R running task stack: 0 pid: 0 ppid: 0 flags:0x0000002a Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1e8 show_stack+0x18/0x28 sched_show_task.part.110+0xdc/0xf4 sched_show_task+0xc4/0xd0 dump_cpu_task+0x44/0x54 rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0xc0/0x104 rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x870/0xa80 update_process_times+0x60/0xa0 tick_sched_handle.isra.20+0x40/0x58 tick_sched_timer+0x4c/0xa8 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x104/0x348 hrtimer_interrupt+0x114/0x328 arch_timer_handler_phys+0x30/0x40 handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x88/0x210 generic_handle_irq+0x30/0x48 __handle_domain_irq+0x64/0xc0 gic_handle_irq+0xc0/0x138 el1_irq+0xc8/0x180 efi_header_end+0x9c/0x35c irq_exit+0xa4/0xc0 __handle_domain_irq+0x68/0xc0 gic_handle_irq+0xc0/0x138 el1_irq+0xc8/0x180 arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x28 default_idle_call+0x54/0x17c do_idle+0x204/0x278 cpu_startup_entry+0x24/0x58 rest_init+0xbc/0xcc arch_call_rest_init+0x10/0x1c start_kernel+0x4f4/0x528 When I

,the terminal displays CPU 0 running at 100% So I want to know why this problem arises, I don't have any clue

Say I start off from a PDF document, say of 12 pages, viewed with **evince**. To produce another PDF of 6 sheets, with a page setup of two pages per side, I normally use the "Print to File" device listed in the ^P dialogue window. This works out pretty neatly. I would like to translate this operation for the command line. - To my understanding, this is not an operation that **pdftk** can do. Please cross check. - The command lp, which would accept the option -o number-up=2, does not recognize any device called "Print to File", which indeed does not show up in lpstat -p -d. - I am aware of the post What is “Print to File” and can it be used from command line? . I have installed **cups-pdf** whereby a new printer named PDF is acknowledged. However, the print quality of a simple text file is way too raw (for example, no print margins to start with). Moreover, if I reprint an existing PDF file on this device, say lp -p PDF existing.pdf, evince can't even manage to open that copycatted output, while this is not the case with the "Print to File" way. - I had a look at man evince. At the bottom, it touches upon a few print preview options and redirects to a GNOME-developer project page . Admittedly I am not able to make sense and use of it. Is there actually a way to combine the flexibility of the command line with the print quality that I obtain from that "Print to File" option in the GUI evince? My test case, again, would be to create from the command line a PDF out of a source document printed with two pages per sheet. Thanks for thinking along.

I am attempting to print multiple pdfs from the command line:

locate FilesIwantToPrint | grep pdf | lp -

This prints the list of pdfs on one page instead of printing the files themselves. Is it possible to achieve the latter behaviour?

I am working with a Raspberry Pi Zero W, and I am attempting to print an image (jpg/png) file to the printer. Currently, I am having success using commands such as echo "hello" /dev/usb/lp0 and sending commands using commands such as echo -e "1B6D" | xxd -r -p | tee /dev/usb/lp0. My trouble comes when I want to send an image via the usb/lp0 method. Is it possible? Furthermore, I want to mention that using cups with the driver was also unsuccessful, and adding the printer using lpadmin was not successful either.

# lpadmin -p Citizen -v serial:/dev/usb/lp0
# lp hello -d Citizen
lp: Destination "Citizen" is not accepting jobs.

Would anyone know why printer prints blank page between copies when running following?

$ lp -d Brother_HL_L2370DW_series -n 2 -o fit-to-page -o MediaType=stationery-heavyweight -o Quality=High -o PageSize=Custom.4x6in file.pdf

I am trying to print 4-slides per page using CUPS lp (in landscape). However, the pages do not emerge rotated no matter what I do. (It looks terrible!) I get the same result whether: 1. I use CUPS to rotate, -o orientation-requested=4 2. if I use pdf90 to rotate, pdf90 --suffix 'foo' file.pdf 3. if I do nothing. Here is the code I use: lp -o fit-to-page -o number-up=4 -o number-up-layout="btlr" -o page-border="single-thick" -o sides=two-sided-short-edge file.pdf

Is it possible to print a document & staple it using the lp command in Linux/Unix? If there are other ways in *nix, I am open for options. Linux : Oracle Linux Server release 6.5 Printer: Ricoh MP C4504 I tried the "HPStaplerOptions=1StapleRightAngled" option mentioned in below discussion but it did not work. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/440895/print-multiple-documents-and-finish-all-of-them-with-stapler-using-lp-in-linux This is the command I tried. lp -c -d0321 -n1 -o "HPStaplerOptions=1StapleRightAngled" testpage.pdf And here are the reported options from lpoptions -p 0321: auth-info-required=none copies=1 device-uri=lpd://print.company.com/0321?timeout=60 finishings=3 job-hold-until=no-hold job-priority=50 job-sheets=none,none marker-change-time=0 number-up=1 printer-info=0321 printer-is-accepting-jobs=true printer-is-shared=true printer-location printer-make-and-model='Local Raw Printer' printer-state=3 printer-state-change-time=1666715772 printer-state-reasons=none printer-type=4 printer-uri-supported=ipp://localhost:631/printers/0321 Thanks.

Running following command works, but printer always prints really fast.

cat /Users/sunknudsen/Downloads/7663f4bd.pdf | lp -o media=4x6 -o print-quality=5

Printing same file using macOS print dialog and selecting “Best” quality results in slowing (and better) printing. Is print-quality=5 equivalent to “Best”?

Printing 7433c27f.pdf using lp results in toner not adhering to paper.

lp -o media=4x6 /Users/sunknudsen/Downloads/Superbacked/7433c27f.pdf

Strangely enough, printing same PDF using “Preview” app on macOS works fine (using “File” / “Print…” menu item). Ideas?

I have to print an email for the district office.
I use Evolution as Email program and I can save the emails in .mbox format. However when I save those email to a .mbox file and then do lp example.mbox it will print the email in an unreadable way.
It has html content, but I can't open the .mbox in Firefox. Is there a way I can convert .mbox to .pdf?
Or can I tell the printer how to treat that file somehow? I don't know how to render that html, it is correctly rendered in Evolution, but I can't print it from there because Evolution does not find my printers.

I have a large custom built application for a client that runs on Java on a Linux system. It produces a number of outputs (bills, etc) that are automatically printed on multiple printers. The way it is designed that there is a table defined for each user specifying the printer assigned to him. All users sit at fixed seats in multiple offices so this table doesn't change (much). Previously, they had a few large line printers for the larger offices and Epson dot matrix printers for the smaller ones. The application would generate each bill as a txt file and place it in a filesystem directory. I have a bash script that runs in a loop that looks for new files in each directory and sends it to print using the lp command, then deletes the txt file. The way it figures out which printer to send to is simple; the name of the printer is the same as the name of the directory. After a long period of use, the line and dot matrix printers are falling apart and being replaced with laser printers. I updated my script that all laser printer names and corresponding directory names end with "-PS" and the lp command pipes it thru enscript to convert to PostScript. Now, I am thinking of adding some formatting to the bills. Nothing fancy, just bold headings and perhaps some font formatting. Reading up on enscript, I see that I can add escape codes as in Stack Exchange sample given here. That would fulfil the needs here. However, if I add the escape codes to the txt file, while it would work for laser printers, it won't if that user has been assigned to a line or dot matrix printer. The script uses plain lp for them without piping thru enscript. Any ideas would be welcome.

OS is Debian 10. I'm trying to print a batch of images with lp. So far so good. Scaling works great, for example. Right now I'm printing with: lp -d "$printer_name" -o ppi=100 -o position=center 1.png However, positioning is not functioning. Leaving position off centers the image top to bottom, but puts it on the left side of the page. position=right has the same result. position=center has the same result. position=left has the same result. position=top puts it at the top left. position=bottom puts it at the bottom left. It's like lp just can't move the image over to the right side of the page for some reason. What is going on here? Printing in gimp or firefox works correctly and I can definitely print on the rest of the page.

I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian and I bought an impact printer (Epson LX-350) that I plan on hooking up to the computer via USB cable once it arrives. My goal is to be able to have a script periodically output lines of ASCII text to the printer as certain events happen. I don't care about it being pretty, in fancy fonts, large font sizes, worrying about files, or worrying about spooling print jobs from multiple users over multiple printers. It seems like I can plug in the printer, not install any specific drivers, and then use commands like echo "Line 1\r\nLine 2\r\nLine 3\r\n" | lp -d /dev/usb/lpXXX. I don't have the printer right now to try it out on, but am I missing anything I should research while I'm waiting for the printer to arrive?