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Setting Up and Maintaining Queues
14.2 Designing Queue Environments
14.2.2 Designing an Output Queue Environment
Use the following sample configurations to design your output environment. Your
configuration will probably combine elements from several of these examples.
Configuration For More Information
A single print queue for limited printing Section 14.2.2.1
Printers of different types Section 14.2.2.2
PostScript printing Section 14.2.2.3
Access to printers from multiple systems Section 14.2.2.4
Multiple printers of the same type Section 14.2.2.5
An OpenVMS Cluster environment Section 14.2.2.6
Applications that print output by writing directly to a printer
rather than submitting to an output queue
Section 14.2.2.7
Distributed printing Section 14.2.2.8
14.2.2.1 Using a Simple Output Queue Configuration
Figure 14–4 shows a simple queue configuration for limited printing needs. This
configuration is appropriate for a standalone system supporting a single printer.
Figure 14–4 Simple Output Queue
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TTA1:
SYS$PRINT
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LN03
Execution QueueE =
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By default, when a user submits a print job with the PRINT command, the job is
placed in the queue named SYS$PRINT. To set up a single default printer queue
on a standalone system, name the queue SYS$PRINT.
14.2.2.2 Mixing Printers
If you have several different types of printers (for example, an LN03 printer, an
LA210 printer, and an LP27 line printer), you must set up a separate queue for
each printer. The options, such as the default form or device control library, that
you use with these queues will probably differ according to the printer to which
the queue’s output is sent. For example, the default form for a line printer might
have a width of 132 columns, while the default form for an LN03 printer might
have a width of 80 columns.
14–8 Setting Up and Maintaining Queues