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SETPRINT ( 1 ) SETPRINT ( 1 )
NAME setprint - send a different page length/width to an LP line printer
SYNOPSIS
setprint lines cols
DESCRIPTION
Lp uses a default page length (66 lines) and page width (132
columns) for printing. If the file to be printed has more than 132
columns, all characters beyond 132 would either be truncated or
the printer would continue to print them all on the last character
position.
Setprint allows you to change the line and column size parameters
to whatever your printer can handle. However, setprint can only
be used with a parallel line printer, and that printer must be
online. Otherwise an 1/0 error will occur.
EXAMPLE
To change the page width to to 150 columns, use setprint as follows:
setprint 66 150
Use the following format to set the page width back to 132
columns:
setprint 66 132
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