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Print Weekly Testpage with anacron

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print-testpage

	#!/bin/bash
	lp /usr/share/cups/data/default-testpage.pdf

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colin-kiegel commented Aug 19, 2015 •

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print testpage bi-weekly 15 minutes after boot.

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/colin-kiegel/96afba4337a42145fbf8/raw/print-testpage
sudo chmod +x print-testpage
sudo mv print-testpage /usr/local/bin/
echo "14      15      print-testpage  /usr/local/bin/print-testpage" >> /etc/anacrontab

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colin-kiegel commented May 1, 2016 •

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If you have multiple printers:

print to a named printer lp -d PRINTER -- FILE.
list available printers lpstat -p

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