lpbanner, pclbanner, psbanner - printer banners in text, PCL and PostScript
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Description
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.
Exit Status
The following exit values are returned:
zero(0) Successful completion.
non-zero(!=0) An error occurred.
History
LPRng is a enhanced printer spooler system with functionality similar to the Berkeley LPR software. The
LPRng developer mailing list is lprng-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; subscribe by visiting
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lprng-devel or sending mail to lprng-request@lists.sourceforge.net with the word subscribe in the body.
The software is available via http://lprng.sourceforge.net
LPRng 2006-12-09 LPBANNER(1)
Name
lpbanner, pclbanner, psbanner - printer banners in text, PCL and PostScript
Options
-wwidth
Page width in characters (default 132).
-llength
Page length in lines (default 60).
-Pprinter
printer queue for banner information.
-Lbannername
Name used on banner as main name.
-nloginname
Name used on banner as login name.
-hhost
Name used on banner as host name.
-Jjobtitle
String used on banner as main title.
-Cclass
String used on banner as class.
-?value
All other options and arguments provided by LPRng are ignored.
See Also
lpd.conf(5), lpc(8), lpd(8), checkpc(8), lpr(1), lpq(1), lprm(1), printcap(5), lpd.conf(5), pr(1), lprng_certs(1), lprng_index_certs(1).
Synopsis
lpbanner [ -llength ] [ -wwidth ] [ -Pprinter ] [ -Lbannername ] [ -nloginname ] [ -hhost ] [ -Jjobtitle ] [ -Cclass ] [ -?optionargs ] [ all ]
