====== CUPS Commands ======


For the most part, you use CUPS lpr commands exactly like you used to with LPRNG:

**lpr -Pprintername**

And that's it!

However, specifying printer options with CUPS is done differently. With LPRNG, printing to transparency or disabling duplexing was done by appending "--slide", "--duplex", or "--simplex" to the printer name.

<codebash>lpr -Psutherland-slide
lpr -Pknuth --simplex
lpr -Psutherland --duplex</code>

With CUPS, you can specify media options with the -o option to lpr:

<codebash>lpr -Psutherland -o media=transparency
lpr -Pknuth -o Duplex=None
lpr -Psutherland -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble</code>

Printers which support these options:

    * Transparency: //color, evans, sutherland//
    * Duplexing: //babbage, color, knuth, sutherland, warnock, ritchie// 

Banner pages can be supressed or forced with the option

<codebash>-o job-sheets=none    (supress)
  -o job-sheets=pcn    (enable)</code>

Multiple options are specified with multiple -o options:\\

<codebash>lpr -Pknuth -o duplex=none -o job-sheets=none</code>

Some newer GNOME or KDE applications may support manipulation of these options via the print dialog boxes, much like in Windows or Macintosh OS.