Technical data

• printer-connection-method — Serial, parallel, ip-socket, bsd, or
digital-printserver connections are supported
The printer attribute files include default values for the printer-model,
printer-connection-level, and printer-tcpip-port-number
attributes. You can include values for the other attributes when you create
the physical printer, or you can set or modify the values after you create
the printer.
6.2.1.1 Setting the Printer Address
The supervisor requires a unique value for the printer-address attribute
for any printer connected to it. If this attribute does not have a value
assigned to it, you cannot enable the physical printer.
Table 6–1 lists the general forms of the printer-address attribute that the
supervisor recognizes. The forms indicate a serial, parallel, or IP network
socket connection. IP network socket ports can be simple node names or
addresses with or without dotted domain syntax, and with or without port
numbers.
Table 6–1: Printer Address Formats
Format Description
Connection Method Supervisor
/dev/lp<n> Parallel port n Parallel pdspvr
/dev/tty<nn> Serial port nn Serial pdspvr
name[:port] Hostname
(without domain)
and port
IP Socket pdspvr
name.dom[:port] Hostname with
domain and port
IP Socket pdspvr
address [:port] Numeric IP
address and port
IP Socket pdspvr
host, printer,
extension
Outbound
gateway printer
bsd pdspvlpr
______________________ Note _______________________
If you do not specify the port number, the supervisor derives it
from the printer-tcpip-port-number attribute. If you specify
the port number as part of printer-address, it supersedes the
value of printer-tcpip-port-number, if any was specified.
Creating and Managing Queues and Printers 6–5