Advanced printer configuration

Examining a form

Once you've defined a form to the print service, you can examine it with one of two commands, depending on the type of information you want to check. The lpforms command displays the attributes of the form. (The display produced by lpforms can be used as input; you may want to save it in a file for future reference.) The lpstat command displays the current status of the form.

NOTE: A form definition that is captured in a file can be used later to redefine the form if you inadvertently remove the form from the print service.

To display the status of a form:

lpstat -f form-name -l

To receive a shorter version of the output, omit the -l.

The long form of output is similar to the output of lpforms -l:

   Page length: scaled-number
   Page width: scaled-number
   Number of pages: integer
   Line pitch: scaled-number
   Character pitch: scaled-number
   Character set choice: character-set[,mandatory]
   Ribbon color: ribbon-color
   Comment:
   comment
   Alignment pattern: [content-type]
   content

To protect potentially sensitive content, the alignment pattern is not shown if the lpstat command is used. See ``Creating a printer form'' for descriptions of these characteristics.