From: Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-202412.rodent.frell.theremailer.net>
Subject: Re: Changing the font w/ lpr?
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pH <wNOSP...@gmail.org> [p]:
p> I like to write my letters using jstar and then print them like so:
p>
p> pr -o4 -t myfile | lpr
p>
p> I'd really like to change it to 12 pitch at the least

Assuming that your printer driver can handle postscript, try enscript
with a fixed width font:

pr -o4 -t myfile | enscript --font Courier@12 -B | lpr

If your printer doesn't speak postscript, but does speak PDF,
just add another step to the above pipe:

pr -o4 -t myfile | enscript --font Times-Roman@12 -B | ps2pdf - - | lpr