lprint-submit(1)

💅 lprint-submit — the lprint-submit(1) page, bestie edition

okay so first thing: this is lprint-submit, and it lives in section 1 of the manual (the LPrint manual, if we're being precise 🎀). It's the "send your file to the printer" one. Let's go.

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✨ NAME ✨

lprint-submit — submit a file for printing.

Like, that's it. That's the whole vibe. You have a file, you want it on paper (or a label), you call this.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lprint [ submit ] [ -d PRINTER ] [ -u PRINTER-URI ] [ -n COPIES ] [ -o
OPTION=VALUE ] [ -t TITLE ] [ FILE [ ... FILE ] ]
lprint [ submit ] [ -d PRINTER ] [ -u PRINTER-URI ] [ -n COPIES ] [ -o
OPTION=VALUE ] [ -t TITLE ] -

Two whole forms, bestie. First one for actual named files, second one (that trailing -) for slurping the print file off standard input. The submit word is optional in both — she's chill like that.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This command submits one or more files for printing. That's the main character energy right there. 💅

The first form prints the named files. The second form copies the print file from the standard input. Pick your fighter.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

The following options are recognized by lprint submit:

• -d PRINTER — tells it which printer queue you mean. If you don't specify one, the default printer gets the job, no thoughts head empty. 😌
• -n COPIES — how many copies. More copies, more labels, more joy. 🎀
• -o finishings=none — print without cutting.
• -o finishings=trim — print and cut. Snip snip. ✂️
• -o media=SIZE-NAME — specifies the label size.
• -o media-source=ROLL-NAME — specifies the label roll.
• -o media-top-offset=NNNin — the inches version, see the next one ⬇️
• -o media-top-offset=NNNmm — specifies the distance to offset printing from the top of the label, in inches (NNNin) or millimeters (NNNmm). Two flavors, same offset. 🧚
• -o media-tracking=continuous — how labels are tracked on the carrier backing: continuous for a continuous label or receipt paper. 🔥
• -o media-tracking=mark — labels that are separated with a visible mark on the carrier backing.
• -o media-tracking=web — labels that are separated with a hole in the carrier backing.

Heads up: those three media-tracking values are all one setting — you pick one of continuous, mark, or web. Don't stack 'em, bestie. 🙈

• -o media-type=continuous — the type of roll media being used: continuous for continuous labels or receipt paper.
• -o media-type=labels — labels for cut labels on a carrier backing.

Same deal — one value, two choices. 🌸

• -o orientation-requested=portrait — print images in portrait orientation.
• -o orientation-requested=landscape — print images in landscape (90 degrees counter-clockwise) orientation. 🔄
• -o orientation-requested=reverse-portrait — print images in reverse-portrait (upside down) orientation. 🙃
• -o orientation-requested=reverse-landscape — print images in reverse-landscape (90 degrees clockwise) orientation.
• -o orientation-requested=none — print images in automatic (portrait or landscape) orientation. Let her decide, she's got this. ✨
• -o print-color-mode=bi-level — only print black or white when printing images. no gray area, literally. 💀
• -o print-color-mode=monochrome — halftone shades of gray when printing images.
• -o print-content-optimize=auto — optimize printing automatically based on the type and content of the file.
• -o print-content-optimize=graphic — optimize printing for graphics only.
• -o print-content-optimize=photo — optimize printing for photos. 📸
• -o print-content-optimize=text — optimize printing for text only.
• -o print-content-optimize=text-and-graphic — optimize printing for text and graphics.
• -o print-darkness=NNN — specifies the print darkness from -100 (lightest) to 100 (darkest). Full range, nothing in between.
• -o print-quality=draft — print using draft quality.
• -o print-quality=normal — print using normal quality.
• -o print-quality=high — print using high/best quality. she ate. 🔥
• -o print-speed=NNNin — the inches version, next bullet ⬇️
• -o print-speed=NNNmm — specifies the print speed in inches (NNNin) or millimeters (NNNmm) per second.
• -o printer-resolution=NNNdpi — specifies the print resolution in dots per inch.
• -t TITLE — specifies the print job name. name your child. 🫶
• -u PRINTER-URI — specifies an ipp: or ipps: URI for a remote printer. remote bestie printing, iconic.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

lprint-cancel(1), lprint-default(1), lprint-options(1).

go read those too, iykyk. 👑

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright © 2019-2026 by Michael R Sweet.

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okay that's the whole page!! LPrint, dated 2026-06-03 — that's the source and version and date all in one cute little bow, mwah. now go print something. 🎀💅✨