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I'm getting a strange behavior with the lp command on Mac OS Catalina. I have a 12-page PDF file and want to print all pages in the PDF. I'm hoping to print hundreds of PDFs using lp or lpr with a variable number of pages.

The following only prints the first page:

lp -d MY_PRINTER -o fit-to-page -o media=A4 myfile.PDF

These commands also only print the first page:

lp -d MY_PRINTER -o fit-to-page -o media=A4 myfile.PDF -o page-ranges=1-999999 lp -d MY_PRINTER -o fit-to-page -o media=A4 myfile.PDF -o page-ranges=1-12

But strangely, this command prints pages 3-12:

lp -d MY_PRINTER -o fit-to-page -o media=A4 myfile.PDF -o page-ranges=3-999999

Does anyone know how to force lp (or lpr) to print all N pages of a PDF?

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  • When using lp from the package cups-client (version 2.4.7-1.2ubuntu7.3) in Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS, I could print all pages of a PDF using this command: $ lp -d <name of the printer> -o fit-to-page <path-to-pdf>, so I suspect the issue you are having is related to a bug that exists in that specific version for Mac OS Catalina. Commented Dec 31, 2024 at 23:13

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