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

The cif command can be used to print only the following file formats:

- 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

If a file format that cannot be printed is specified, the printer driver displays an error message and terminates processing.
If the file has multiple pages, only the first page is printed.

With this printing method, status information is not displayed in the Status Monitor.

Enter the following command to display the version information, the instructions, the option lists, etc.

[root@zzz /yyyy]# cifip4300 --help

Specifying print settings with command line switches

To specify print settings by using print options when you enter 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]# cifip4300 [filename] [switches] > /dev/usb/lp0

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.

Options (cif)

Media Type

Paper Source

Print Quality

Halftoning

Color Balance

Intensity Specification

Contrast Specification

Print Purpose

Brightness Specification

Grayscale Printing

Page Size Specification

Print Size Adjustment

Print Position Adjustment

Borderless Printing Specification

Copies

Input Image Resolution

Image Extraction Range

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]# cifip4300 Sample.png --media plain --papersize a4 > /dev/usb/lp0

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]# cifip4300 --gui [filename] [switches] > /dev/usb/lp0

It displays the following Driver UI on which you can perform the print setting.

 

Print Settings with the Driver UI

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.
If switches is omitted, the default values that printer driver stores internally are used.

Example: Printing Sample.png with the Driver UI

[root@zzz /yyyy]# cifip4300 --gui Sample.png > /dev/usb/lp0