Printing multiple pages on one page?

[weijia]

Is there a way for the linux print service to place multiple pages onto one page (eg. 2 or 4 pages on one page)? Under windows it seems that this is a default feature in the printer drivers, but I have not found an equivalent way to do this under Linux. I currently use Cups as my print service. Thanks


Weijia

[tukem]

I think printing is still pain in linux. Controlling printing is possible with commandline parameters but this often requires few extra steps like first printing to a file and then printing that file from commandline. Cups has documentation in http://localhost:631/documentation.html

A little search in the documentation shows that line
lp -o number-up=<number> filename

gives what you wanted. <number> is one of the {1, 2, 4, 6, 9,16}. Depending on configuration the printer may have to be defined with "-P <printername>".

[weijia]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the help!