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pclbanner1
Printer banners in text, pcl and postscript
Part of lpbanner(1).
Usage
lpbanner [-l
length]
[-w
width]
[-P
printer]
[-L
bannername]
[-n
loginname]
[-h
host]
[-J
jobtitle]
[-C
class]
[-?
option
args]
[all]
Overview
The lpbanner program is used to print a simple banner on a fixed size font printer, the pclbanner program generates a PCL banner and the psbanner program generates a PostScript banner. All information to be printed is passed using command line arguments. In order to be compatible with vintage line printer spoolers, reads a line form standard input, but ignores the information.
Options
-wwidth-
Page width in characters (default 132).
-llength-
Page length in lines (default 60).
-Pprinter-
printer queue for banner information.
-Lbannername-
Name used on banner as main name.
-nloginname-
Name used on banner as login name.
-hhost-
Name used on banner as host name.
-Jjobtitle-
String used on banner as main title.
-Cclass-
String used on banner as class.
-
-? value -
All other options and arguments provided by LPRng are ignored.
Exit status
The following exit values are returned:
-
non-zero (!=0) -
An error occurred.
History
- Debian 13 (Trixie) to Debian 6.0 (Squeeze): the text shown here
- Debian 4.0 (Etch) to Debian 3.1 (Sarge)
- Debian 3.0 (Woody)
- Debian 2.2 (Potato)
-C until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-J until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-L until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-P until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-h until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-l until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-n until Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-w until Debian 4.0 (Etch).