Setting default margins?

jo fivesides at live.com
Tue Mar 2 19:34:06 PST 2010


> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:17:51PM -0700, Mac Mason wrote:
> > Is there a easy way to set the default margins for a printer? I suppose
> > I could create a queue that would set the margins and then drop the job
> > to the 'real' queue, but that seems like a hack; is there a better way
> > to do this?
>
> If you mean the margins used when printing plain text files, you can do:
>
> lpadmin -p <printer> -o page-left=<value> -o page-right=<value> [...]
>
> The values are in points.
>
> Regards
> Matthias
>

page-left page-right, and the other two are only for TEXT FILES. use col or fmt.




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