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11.2 Creating a Physical Printer
The LPD supervisor supports the bsd printer connection method. For each
print system physical printer object you create, you need to specify the
remote machine and the remote printer name of the LPD printer queue.
The LPD supervisor needs to know the name of the printer to communicate
properly with it. The supervisor uses the printer-address attribute to
determine the name of the LPD printer. The supervisor uses this name
to determine the following:
• Remote host
• Printer name on the remote host
• Protocol conformance (the LPD extension to support)
You must specify these three items using the following format:
printer-address=remotehost,printername,protocol_conformance
Protocol conformance keywords are:
1179
Solaris
DigitalUNIX
Xerox
To set up the remote LPD printer big_red on a machine with the IP address
of fafner.xyz.com and define it to use Tru64 UNIX protocol extensions,
you would specify the printer-address attribute as follows:
printer-address="fafner.xyz.com,big_red,DigitalUNIX"
Once you have created a physical printer, you can associate it with a queue
following the procedures outlined in Chapter 6.
11.3 The pdspvr Features Not Supported by the LPD
Supervisor
The LPD supervisor does not support the same set of features as the regular
supervisor (pdspvr). The following features are not supported:
• Translation or modification Filters – Document data filtering is not
supported.
• Separator page generation – The LPD supervisor does pass a request for
a banner page to the remote server or printer when the job-sheets
attribute is set to job-copy-start or job-copy-wrap. However, it
does not generate the separator page data itself.
11–2 LPD Outbound Gateway Supervisor