To use the cif command, you must switch to other super user account using the su command.
When you use the cif command to print a file, there are two ways of specifying print settings:
Specifying print settings with command line switches
Specifying print settings with the Driver UI
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- TIFF: Uncompressed mode only - BMP: Only 8-bit per color RGB - PPM: Only 8-bit per color RGB (binary format) - PNG: 8-bit per color RGB/8-bit Gray/Index/8-bit per color α RGB/8-bit α Gray
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Enter the following command to display the version information, the instructions, the option lists, etc. |
Specifying print settings with command line switches
To specify print settings by using command line switches of the cif command, enter the command as follows.
When the filename is omitted, the printer driver processes the data as being received from standard input only if the data is PPM.
[root@zzz /yyyy]# cifip4500 [filename] [switches] > /dev/usb/lp0 (for Ubuntu:/dev/usblp0)
switches
The following option values are available for switches. If switches is omitted, the default values that the printer driver stores internally are used.
For details about how to specify the settings, see the explanations for the individual items.
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There are print option combinations that cannot be specified for switches. |
Example: Printing Sample.png on Plain Paper with A4 Page Size
[root@zzz /yyyy]# cifip4500 Sample.png --media plain --papersize a4 > /dev/usb/lp0 (for Ubuntu:/dev/usblp0)
Specifying print settings with the Driver UI
If you want to use the Driver UI to specify print settings, enter the cif command as follows.
When the filename is omitted, the printer driver processes the data as being received from standard input only if the data is PPM.
[root@zzz /yyyy]# cifip4500 --gui [filename] [switches] > /dev/usb/lp0 (for Ubuntu:/dev/usblp0)
It displays the following Driver UI on which you can perform the print setting.
Print Settings with the Driver UI (cif)
switches
switches allows you to specify the Input Image Resolution and the Image Extraction Range in the print options of the cif command. Use the Driver UI to specify other print settings.
Example: Printing Sample.png with the Driver UI
[root@zzz /yyyy]# cifip4500 --gui Sample.png > /dev/usb/lp0 (for Ubuntu:/dev/usblp0)