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Creating and Managing Queues and

Printers

This chapter describes:

• Creating and managing queues (Section 6.1)

• Creating and managing physical printers (Section 6.2)

• Creating and managing logical printers (Section 6.3)

• Specifying job defaults and creating default objects (Section 6.4)

For detailed descriptions of the commands used in this section, refer to the

Advanced Printing Software Command Reference Guide.

6.1 Creating and Managing Queues

The logical and physical printer abstractions are joined by way of queues.

By associating each logical printer and physical printer with a queue object,

you establish a relationship between the printer that the user specifies for

printing and the physical printer defined by characteristics of the output

device.

When you create a queue, you associate it with a spooler. The associated

spooler does the following:

• Registers the queue with the name service by creating an entry in the

local file /etc/printers.conf

• Initializes the new queue as disabled

• Adds the name of the new queue to the spooler attribute

queues-supported.

You can use the pdcreate command or the pdprintadmin GUI to create

queues. When you use the pdprintadmin GUI to create a printer, you are

asked if you want the print system to automatically create the queue.

Use pdcreate to create queues. The pdcreate command has the following

command-line syntax:

pdcreate [-c class_name] [-x extended_attribute_string] [-X

attribute_filename]

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