lpr changed in FC5?

[Julius Smith]

On 8/12/06, Julius Smith <julius.smith at gmail.com> wrote:
> For printing text files in "2 up" mode, I used to say
>
>   print2up enscript -2r file.txt

I meant to say

  enscript -2r file.txt

(copy/paste error from what was really an alias)

> This worked fine up until FC4.  In FC5, the left margin is cut off
> (when looked at in landscape mode, so that the cut-off left margin is
> that of the first of two pages on the page).  Today I thrashed around
> until I found the following work-around:
>
>   alias print2up 'mpage -2 -H -bLetter -f \!* | lpr -l'
>
> The key parameter is '-l' to lpr.  Until I hit upon that, absolutely
> nothing worked.  (I tried many options in both enscript and mpage, and
> margin-related options didn't help.)
>
> So, it appears there is some new "lpr filter" in FC5, at least for my
> printer drive, which is the default drive for HP laserjet 1220.
>
> Perhaps lpr should be smarter about recognizing preformatted pages for
> printing so that it can work without the '-l' option?
>