lpr-text for CUPS

Hal Canary
https://halcanary.org/vv/2006/09/08/629/
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If you are using CUPS for your printing, there is no reason to continue using Enscript.

#!/bin/sh
#DTPD#
# http://cups.org/documentation.php/options.html
# ~/bin/lpr-2col-text
exec lpr -o page-left=36 \
        -o page-right=36 \
        -o page-top=72 \
        -o page-bottom=36 \
        -o columns=2 \
        -o landscape \
        -o cpi=16.842 \
        -o lpi=10.1052 "$@"
# 80 columns width x 70 columns high x 2 columns

That's about 140 80-character lines per page, in two columns. Somewhat analagous to "enscript -2r -B". I leave room at the left margin for hole-punches, to make binding easier.

In theory, this should handle Unicode characters much better than enscript or a2ps does. If you are still having issues with unicode printing, try "ooffice - file".

Here's the one-column version:

#!/bin/sh
#DTPD#
# http://cups.org/documentation.php/options.html
# ~/bin/lpr-1col-text
exec lpr -o page-left=72 \
        -o page-right=36 \
        -o page-top=36 \
        -o page-bottom=36 \
        -o cpi=11.43 -o lpi=6.858 "$@"
# 80 columns width x 68 columns high