4x Page printing

Ulrich Drepper drepper at redhat.com
Tue Nov 18 22:25:04 UTC 2003


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Scott Baker wrote:
> My windows HP drivers allow me to take whatever page is printed and mux
> it so it prints 4 pages on page of paper.  This is pretty handy for
> printing out long text files.  4x pages per page double sided really
> saves a lot of paper.  Is this possible with CUPS?  Any way I can
> conserve some paper?

Don't know whether CUPS can do it automatically, but you can send the
Postscript file first through mpage.  Use

  mpage -4 FILE | lpr


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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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