Quite
often, the characteristics, or attributes, of print jobs differ
from job to job. You may have a particularly large job that requires
printing on two sides. You may have other jobs that require rotation
of the printing orientation or multiple copies. You may also have
jobs that require a combination of these things. You can specify
attributes for your jobs and documents by specifying an attribute
and a value, referred to as an attribute value pair.
For a complete list of attributes, see the manpages for attributes
that belong to each HPDPS object. See “Getting Help for HPDPS Commands ” earlier for a list of these manpages or enter:
Examples of some of these attributes are:
copy-count
(number of document copies)
sides
(double or single-sided copies)
content-orientation
(landscape or portrait layout)
document-format
(type of format)
number-up
(number of images on a page)
results-profile
(includes number of copies of a job)
input-tray-select
(specifying which printer tray to use)
To enter an attribute value pair, you use the -x
attribute flag. For example, to print three copies of File1,
enter:
pdpr -x "copy-count=3" File1 |
If you want to specify several attributes and their values,
the following example illustrates how:
pdpr -x "copy-count=3 sides=2" File1 |
The above command specifies three copies with two-sided printing.
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Some attributes
have additional flags that can be used to substitute for the attribute
name. For example, to print three copies of File1
you can also use -n
CopyCount flag and its value:
Refer to Chapter 3 “Command Reference ” for
a complete description of all flags and more information on attribute
value pairs.
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Specifying the Number of Copies |
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Use -n
CopyCount or -x copy-count=CopyCount
with the pdpr
command to specify the number of document copies in a job that you
want to print. If you do not specify a copy count for your job,
HPDPS prints the default number of copies. For examples, see the
previous section.
Specifying Two-Sided Print Jobs |
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Use -x sides=2
with the pdpr
command to specify two-sided (duplexed) printing for your job. Duplexed
jobs print on both sides of the paper such that the top of each
side is at the same edge of the paper. If you do not specify the
sides attribute,
HPDPS applies the default value for this attribute.
To submit file File1
to the default logical printer and specify duplexed printing, enter:
Specifying the Page Orientation |
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Use -x content-orientation=OrientationValue
with the pdpr
command to specify the page orientation for your job. The two most
common page orientations are portrait and
landscape. Portrait orientation has the short
edges of the printed page as the top and bottom with the long edges
as the sides. Landscape orientation rotates the page 90 degrees
so that the long edges of the page are at the top and bottom. If
you do not specify the content-orientation
attribute, HPDPS prints your job in portrait orientation. To submit
the file File1
to the default logical printer and specify landscape orientation,
enter:
pdpr -x "content-orientation=landscape" File1 |
Specifying the Document Format for a Job |
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Use -x document-format=Format
with the pdpr
command to specify the document format of your job. HPDPS accepts
jobs in different document formats such as PostScript, PCL, and
ASCII. If you do not specify the document format of the job when
you submit the print request, HPDPS automatically tries to determine
the format and process the request accordingly. This saves you time
when entering print commands from the command line. It is also an
advantage if you are not sure of the data format of the job. There
can be times when you need to explicitly tell HPDPS the document
format of your job. If HPDPS cannot determine the document format,
it treats the file as ASCII data and the printed results may not
be acceptable. In such cases, you should specify the document format.
For example, to submit file PSFile2
to the default logical printer and specify the document format PostScript,
enter:
pdpr -x "document-format=ps" PSFile2 |
Specifying Number of Images on a Page |
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Use -x number-up=NumberOfImages
to specify the number of images on a page. The value for NumberOfImages
can be 1, 2, 3, or 4.
For example, to print File1
with an image displaying on each half of a page for a total of two
images per page, enter:
pdpr -x "number-up=2" File1 |
Printing Multiple Documents in a Single Job |
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To print jobs that contain more than one document, you can
either specify the name of each document with the pdpr
command, or, you can create a reference file that lists each document.
To print
multiple documents in one job, list each of the document file names
as arguments of the pdpr
command. All document files in the job must have the same attributes
or HPDPS will reject the job. For example, they must have the same
data format such as ASCII or PostScript. Specify any document attributes,
such as sides=2
or number-up=4
before the list of file names.
The following examples show how you can specify multiple files
with a single pdpr
command.
To submit the files File1 and
File2 to the
default logical printer, enter:
To submit the documents File1
and File2 to
the default logical printer and specify three copies of each document
with duplexed printing, enter:
pdpr -x "copy-count=3 sides=2" File1 File2 |
In the above example, HPDPS prints
three copies of File1 followed
by three of File2. As an alternative,
to print multiple copies of the same job, you can use the job-copies
component of the results-profile
job attribute. So, to submit a job that prints a single copy of
File3 and File4
and then prints the job again, enter:
pdpr -x "results-profile=:::2:" File3 File4 |
Here,
results-profile
is a complex attribute, that is, one that has multiple values. It
contains the following components:
In the example above, the components are separated by colons.
See "Complex Attributes Using Colons" in Chapter
3 for rules on colon syntax. See HP Distributed Print
Service Administration Guide or the manpage pd_att_job(5)
for details on results-profile.
You can use a reference file that contains a list of the documents
you want to print with the pdpr
command. For example,
pdpr -x "document-type=file-reference" myref |
submits
the reference file, myref, and
prints each document listed within it. Each document within myref
must be on a separate line.
Specifying a Medium for a Job |
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To
specify a particular medium to print, you can specify a value for
input-tray-select,
such as top or
middle. If you
do not specify a value for this document attribute, HPDPS uses the
default-medium
attribute value, such as iso-a4-white
or iso-a4-transparent.
If that is not defined, then HPDPS uses the value identified for
the default-input-tray,
such as top or
middle.
Specifying the Number of Pages |
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You can include information about the size of a document within
your job. This may be helpful to you or an HPDPS administrator to
help manage job flow.
For example, if your job file File3
is about 50 pages long, you might enter the command:
pdpr -x "page-count=50" File3 |
When submitting a job consisting of two files, you can specify
the number of pages for each document:
pdpr -x "page-count=40" FileA -x "page-count=70" FileB |
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