To see a list of printers known to UNIX, type printers at your UNIX prompt. The printer "code" will be shown in the leftmost column.

To print a file on one of the UNIX printers, use the lpr command with the -P switch, as in the following example, which prints "my.file" to the printer in UCC 101 (the UCC Distribution Area):

lpr -Pps_ucc101 my.file

NOTE: ps_ucc101 is used only as an example; this probably is not the most convenient printer for most users.

Some printers are configured for PostScript only, and will not accept text-file input from the lpr command. In this case the enscript command (which converts text to PostScript) should be used instead, as shown here:

enscript -Pps_ucc101 my.file

To print output that is more than 80 characters wide, many printers will require that you rotate the orientation of the page to "landscape" (the default usually is "portrait") and often you will also need to reduce the font size to get all 132 columns on the page without wrapping. This can be accomplished with the enscript command followed by the -r (rotate) option and the -f (font specification) option. One font that has been tested for wide output is Courier9, though others may work as well. The following will print wide output (132 characters per line) without any wrapping or truncation:

enscript -Pps_ucc101 -r -fCourier9 file.name

You can also download your output (or any file) to a PC or Mac, and print on a local printer, if you prefer. The consultants have documentation on how to download files.