4x Page printing
Tim Sheets
tsheets at insightbb.com
Wed Nov 19 03:19:47 UTC 2003
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>>Scott Baker wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>Don't know whether CUPS can do it automatically, but you can send the
>>Postscript file first through mpage. Use
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>> mpage -4 FILE | lpr
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another option is lp -o number-up=4 -o prittyprint <filename>
I haven't ever used mpage, so it may be nicer, but the above works.
There are several other options you may be interested in. take a look
at the lp man page.
have fun!
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