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Send documents to a printer and automate many tasks from the command line.
Print with shell commands courtesy of CUPS
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CUPS command-line commands let you quickly print documents remotely to a printer of your choice, print shell script results without user intervention, move print jobs to another printer, cancel jobs, and more.
In the first part of this series, "CUPS Administration," published in Raspberry Pi Geek last issue [1], I showed you how to create and manage printers and queues. In this article, although I distinguish between printers and queues, from the perspective of the command line, these are usually the same thing because multiple queues can be set up for a physical printer. This ability proves especially useful if your printers have various add-ons (e.g., additional paper trays filled with different kinds of paper).
Printing
CUPS provides two print commands, lp (System V) and lpr (BSD), both of which you can use on the Raspberry Pi. The CUPS developers have expanded these commands with their own options. Table 1 shows the most important commands for everyday work.
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