NAME

       hpset — printer commands

SYNOPSIS

       hpset [-hco] [commands ...]

DESCRIPTION

       hpset  is  used to send commands to a printer. These commands are synonyms for ESC Codes based on the PCL
       standard from Hewlet Packard.

Options

       -c      redirect output to stdout

       -oname  redirect output into the specified file or device redirect

       -h      prints a help message

Commands

       back    Puts every setting back to the printer defaults.

       test    Starts the self test.

       out     If paper is inside the printer it will be thrown out.

       cr      activates the linefeed

       lbon    acivates the linebreak.

       leftright
               forces the printer to print only from left to right.

       rightleft
               forces the printer to print only from right to left.

       bidirect
               forces the printer in both ways.

       execoff
               The following commands are not executed but printed.

       execon  The following commands are executed.

       nice    High quality printing.

       econo   Enables fast and economic printing.

       landscape
               Printing in landscape format.

       portrait
               Printing in portrait format.

       lpinum  Sets the lines per inch. For num use 6 or 8.

       The following commands must be sent in the given order and sequence. The sequence looks like,

             hpset [characterset] [characterdistance] [character density]
             [point size] [type position] [line strength] [type]

             -Characterset

                     english         ISO 4

                     ansi            ANSI ASCII ISO 6

                     sweden          ISO 10

                     italian         ISO 15

                     spain           ISO 17

                     german          ISO 21

                     france          ISO 69

             -Characterdistance

                     prop    Proportional

                     fix     Fixed

             If you've chosen proportional you don't have to set the character density.

             -Characterdensity

                     cpi#    # is one of 5,6,10,12,16,16.67,20,24

             -Pointsize

                     point#  # is one of 4.75,5,6,7,8,9.5,10,12,14,19,24

             -Typeposition

                     italic
                     upright

             -Linestrength

                     bold
                     normal

             -Type
                     courier
                     times
                     gothic
                     univers

             Notice that not every combination of the commands above is possible. Refer
             to the manual of HPSET where you can find a table with allowed combinations.

SEE ALSO

       lpr(1), lpd(1),

BUGS

       report them to michael.janson@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de

LINUX                                            April 27, 1997                                       HPSET(1)()