Print or email files with special requirements?

You can use Infoprint Server job attributes to describe special requirements. Attributes specify things like these:

• Whether to print on one or both sides of the paper
• Resources like fonts, page definitions, form definitions, and overlays
• Text to print on the separator sheet or the subject of the email

Use the -o option of the lp command to specify attribute values when you print a file or send a print file to an email destination. For example, you want to print file special.job on both sides of the paper that is loaded in input tray top of Printer2. You want to print one overlay, O1ODD, on all the front sides of the paper and another, O1EVEN, on all the back sides. Both overlays reside in a library called MYOVR.LIBRARY. Enter:

lp -d Printer2 -o "input-tray=top duplex=yes
   overlay-front=O1ODD overlay-back=O1EVEN
   resource-library=MYOVR.LIBRARY" special.job

Instead of entering all the attributes on the command line, you can store them in an attributes file. If the attributes file is called myatts, enter:

lp -d Printer2 -o attributes=myatts special.job

For a list of job attributes and a description of the use and values of each one, see Job attribute listing. For information about attributes files, see Attributes files. For information about the -o option of the lp command, see lp—Print a file.