An Overview of Printing for UNIX

This document contains the following sections:

• Printable File Types
• Choosing a Printer
• LPR Print Command
• Managing Your Print Jobs

For information related to this topic refer to:

• Cluster Printing pages

CONVENTIONS: Throughout these pages, commands that must be typed are shown in bold at a unix prompt (%). You should type everything after the prompt, but not the prompt character (%).

For more information about any of the commands described in this document, use the "man" command.

For example:
% man lpr
% man lpq
% man lprm

Last Updated: 06/02/06