NAME

lpbanner, pclbanner, psbanner - printer banners in text, PCL and PostScript

SYNOPSIS

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

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.

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.

AUTHOR

Patrick Powell <papowell@lprng.com>.

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