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 Command Line Printing
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A list of useful commands and options to print documents from the
command line.

This assumes a CUPS server, as commonly configured on most Linux
distributions.

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Printing
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Get a list of available printers
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To get a list of all printers, with details::

   $ lpstat -p

just the list of all available destinations on the local network::

   $ lpstat -e

the current default one::

   $ lpstat -d

Printing in greyscale
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To get the list of options available for your printer use::

   $ lpoptions [-p <printer_name>] -l

there will be a line like (note that different printers may have a more
specific option that you need to enable)::

   ColorModel/Print Color Mode: Gray *RGB

and then you'll have to add ``-o ColorModel=Gray`` to the ``lpr``
command line, e.g.::

   $ lpr -o ColorModel=Gray <filename>

File Preparation
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Converting spreadsheet files to PDF
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Using the command ``ssconvert`` from Gnumeric::

   ssconvert <source_filename> <destination>.pdf

works with any format supported by Gnumeric, including of course ``xls``
and ``ods``.

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