Lexmark Optra E310 Laser Printer

Product specific information for the printer and queue system is provided.

Product specific information

Item Description
Page Rotation Page rotation selection is supported for the PCL 5 emulation by using the -z flag of the qprt command.
-z 0
Portrait
-z 1
Landscape
Paper Source Paper source selection is supported for both the enhanced PCL 5 emulation and the PostScript Level 2 emulation by using the -u flag of the qprt command. The input source number is the same for both PCL and PostScript:
-u 0
manual feed
-u 1
tray 1

By default, the banner and trailer pages come from the top tray. To change the default, change the values for the uH and/or uT attributes respectively in the colon file to the value for the desired paper source. The valid values are the same as for the -u flag. Do this by editing the virtual printer colon file by using the chvirprt command.

Paper Size Paper size selection is supported by using -O and -Q flags of the qprt command. The -O flag controls paper versus envelope. A -O value of 3 indicates a paper size and 4 an envelope size.
Paper Sizes (-0 3)
Envelope Sizes (-0 4)
-Q 1 Letter
7 3/4 Monarch
-Q 2 Legal
9 (Com 9)
-Q 3 B5
10 (Com 10)
-Q 4 A4
DL
-Q 5 Executive
C5
-Q 6 A5
B5 Envelope
-Q 7
Other Envelope (MPT only)

To change the defaults, change the s1, s3 attribute values in the lexOptraE310.pcl colon file. The default for paper size is 1 or letter, and the default for envelopes is 3 or Com 10. The letter value is the else part (%e1) of the s1 and s3 attributes, and the envelope is the then part (%t3).

Paper Type The Optra E310 printer supports paper types ROUGH, NORMAL (default), TRANSPARENCY, LABELS, and CARDSTOCK via the -y parameter to the qprt command, or the -y attribute in the colon file. The values to the -y option are 1 through 5 respectively for the above types.
-y 1
Bond
-y 2
Plain
-y 3
Transparency
-y 4
Labels
-y 5
Cardstock
Note: These values do not apply to envelopes.
Pitch Pitch selection is supported for the PCL emulation by using the -p flag for pitch and the -s flag for font name (or type face) with the qprt command. Pitch values between 1 and 100 characters per inch (cpi) in whole integers are supported. The condensed print flag, -K, is not supported.
Font Name
Pitch
-s courier
-p (1 to 100)
-s courier-bold
-p (1 to 100)
-s courier-italic
-p (1 to 100)
-s courier-bolditalic
-p (1 to 100)
-s gothic
-p (1 to 100)
-s gothic-bold
-p (1 to 100)
-s gothic-italic
-p (1 to 100)
-s lineprinter
-p 17
Note: To format ASCII for other font styles, use the base operating system enscript utility or the qprt command with the -da, -s, and -p flags to a PostScript queue. For PostScript queues, -p stands for point size and the valid list of fonts is located in /usr/lib/ps/fontmap. Valid point sizes are any integer from 1 to 1008.

Only a pitch of 17 is supported for the lineprinter font style.

Number of Copies for Each Page The -W flag of the qprt command controls how many copies of each page is printed. The default is 1 copy, and the maximum value is 999.
-w #
number of copies

Example: If a three-page job is submitted with -W2 on the qprt command, then two copies of page 1 followed by two copies of page 2 followed by two copies of page 3 will occur in that order.