la380of(8)						      System Manager's Manual							la380of(8)

NAME

       la380of - Filter for Japanese LA380 printer

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lbin/la380of [-c] [-h host] [-i indent] [-l length] [-L locale] [-n login] [-w width] [accounting_file]

OPTIONS

       Prints  control	characters.  Specifies the host name of the job owner. This name can contain Japanese characters.  Specifies the amount of
       indentation. The default value is no (no indentation).  Specifies the page length in lines. The default value is 66.  Specifies the printer
       codeset.  This  value  must  be a valid locale name. The default value is ja_JP.sdeckanji.  Specifies the login name of the job owner. This
       name can contain Japanese characters.  Specifies the page width in columns. The default value is 132.

OPERANDS

       Specifies the file to record accounting information.

DESCRIPTION

       The la380of filter is used to filter Japanese text data for the LA380 printer. The filter handles the device dependencies  of  the  printer
       and  performs  accounting functions. At print job completion times, accounting records are written to the file specified by the af field in
       the /etc/printcap file.

       The la380of filter can handle plain text files and files that have been preprocessed by nroff.  Either kind of file can	contain  non-ASCII
       characters.  The  filter  translates  nroff  control  sequences	for  underlining, superscripting, and subscripting into the proper control
       sequences for the LA380 printer.

       The la380of filter can be the specified filter in both the of and the if fields in the /etc/printcap file. For more information about these
       fields, see printcap(4).

       The  LA380-J  printer  can be configured to use the software on-demand loading (SoftODL) mechanism to print user-defined characters (UDCs).
       For a description of the SoftODL mechanism, refer to i18n_printing(5).  To enable SoftODL printing, set the ys value  in  /etc/printcap	to
       256.  You can also set the default SoftODL database, style, and size by using the odldb and odlstyle options of the ya field.  If you spec-
       ify a value for the yt field, use fifo.	Refer to printcap(4) for more information on these fields.

NOTES

       The lpr command supports a number of options and associated arguments to enable localization features supported by  various  printers.  The
       following can be used with the la380of print filter: To specify the SoftODL database path To specify SoftODL font style and size

       For a complete description of the -A option and its arguments, refer to lpr(1).

ERRORS

       The lf field (default value is /dev/null) in the /etc/printcap file specifies the name of the error log.

SEE ALSO

       Commands: lpr(1), pr(1), lpd(8), pac(8)

       Files: printcap(4)

       Others: i18n_printing(5)

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