FAQ:

I want my documents (e. g. slides) printed single-sided! And I want to use the manual feed!

Answer:

We use the LPRng printing system which is supposed to be the successor of the old BSD lpr printing system.

Note that we send all print jobs to the spooler which runs on the rzdspc0. Therefore no admin at NATS is responsible for printer failures and only the guys at the computing center can do the privileged stuff. (Henrik, perhaps you can install a printer spooler for the nats17 when you have some spare time so that we can do the priviledged commands ourselves, like moving Windows and Apple jobs to the end of the queue etc.

Enough said, here comes the answer to the problem. The lpr command understands the Z option which is passed to the spooler for further processing.

Print document single-sided on default printer (given by the environment variable PRINTER which is set to f232_hp2 by default):

lpr -Zsimplex foo.ps

Print document from the manual feed of printer foobar:

lpr -Pfoobar -Zmanual foo.ps

Note that the printer blocks any other print jobs and displays MF Load A4 while it waits for manual input. It's a good idea to go directly to the printer to feed the pages or slides into the printer after you submitted such a print job.

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-- MichaelDaum -- 09 Sep 2003