This section tells you how to use printers you have setup with FreeBSD. Here is an overview of the user-level commands:
Print jobs
Check printer queues
Remove jobs from a printer's queue
There is also an administrative command, lpc, described in the section Administrating the LPD Spooler, used to control printers and their queues.
All three of the commands
lpr,
lprm, and
lpq
accept an option ``-P printer-name'' to specify on
which printer/queue to operate, as listed in the
/etc/printcap file. This enables you to submit,
remove, and check on jobs for various printers. If you do not
use the -P option, then these commands use the printer
specified in the PRINTER environment variable. Finally, if
you do not have a PRINTER environment variable, these commands
default to the printer named lp.
Hereafter, the terminology default printer means the
printer named in the PRINTER environment variable, or the
printer named lp when there is no PRINTER environment
variable.