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LPCR Printing from the Unix Command Prompt

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Use the qpr command to send a file to the printer. The default printer is defined in the environment variable PRINTER. The default page limit value is 100 cents (10 pages).

The syntax for qpr is: qpr [-q queue] [-m cents] [filename]

You will be prompted for your print account and password, for example:

rac3:~: qpr -q pg2 -m 10 testfile
Print account? [nothing is shown]
Print account password? [nothing is shown]

This command sent the file called "testfile" to the pg2 printer, with a page limit of 10 cents. If testfile was more than 1 page, the other pages would not have printed out.

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