how to get bold print?

[Tony]

>
>    Hello.
>
>    I'm using CUPS version 1.1.21 on Solaris 10 (sparc).  Today one of our users asked me how to print bold print jobs.  I figured that would be the simplest question of the day.   However in searching this forum for "bold" I only get hit's where "bold" is part of someones name.   I tried searching for font with no luck either.
>
>    When I grep for "bold" in the ppd file I see many mentions of
> different bold fonts like this
>
> grep -i bold hp5500.ppd
> *HPwmFont CourierB/Courier Bold: "
>   /Courier-Bold findfont dup length dict begin
> *HPwmFont TimesB/Times Bold: "
>   /Times-Bold findfont dup length dict begin
> *HPwmFont HelveticaB/Helvetica Bold: "
>
>    However I cannot figure out how to submit an job using lp and specify that a bold font should be used.
>
>   I was assuming that this would be passed in as an lp option and have
> tried the following with no luck
> lp -d r02 -o bold /etc/release
> lp -d r02 -o font=Courier-Bold /etc/release
> lp -d r02 -o cvn=Courier-Bold /etc/release
>
>    Any ideas on how to specify a font or choose a generic bold option
> would be appreciated.
>   TIA.G
>
>

I have the same question also (posted back on 9/11).  Hopefully, somebody with some insight will let us know.