lpbanner(1)

lpbanner1

Printer banners in text, pcl and postscript

Usage

lpbanner [-l length] [-w width] [-P printer] [-L bannername] [-n loginname] [-h host] [-J jobtitle] [-C class] [-? option args] [all]

Overview

The lpbanner program is used to print a simple banner on a fixed size font printer, the pclbanner program generates a PCL banner and the psbanner program generates a PostScript banner. All information to be printed is passed using command line arguments. In order to be compatible with vintage line printer spoolers, reads a line form standard input, but ignores the information.

Options

-w width

Page width in characters (default 132).

-l length

Page length in lines (default 60).

-P printer

printer queue for banner information.

-L bannername

Name used on banner as main name.

-n loginname

Name used on banner as login name.

-h host

Name used on banner as host name.

-J jobtitle

String used on banner as main title.

-C class

String used on banner as class.

-? value

All other options and arguments provided by LPRng are ignored.

Exit status

The following exit values are returned:

zero (0)

Successful completion.

non-zero (!=0)

An error occurred.

Releases

16 releases since Debian 1.3 (Bo); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 1.3
  2. 2.0
  3. 2.1
  4. 2.2
  5. 3.0
  6. 3.1–4.0
  7. 5.0–13

-C until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -J until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -L until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -P until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -h until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -l until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -n until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -w until Debian 4.0 (Etch).

Author

Patrick Powell <[email protected]>.

History

LPRng is a enhanced printer spooler system with functionality similar to the Berkeley LPR software. The LPRng developer mailing list is [email protected]; subscribe by visiting https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lprng-devel or sending mail to [email protected] with the word subscribe in the body.
The software is available via http://lprng.sourceforge.net

From lprng 3.8.B-9 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.