Technical data

• If the specified printer is the only physical printer associated with
a queue, the spooler stops scheduling jobs in that queue until it is
associated with another physical printer.
The pddelete command has the following command-line syntax:
pddelete [-c class_name] [-x extended_attribute_string] [-X
attribute_filename printer_name]
The following example shows how to delete the printer, hpcolorPS:
# pddelete hpcolorPS
6.3 Creating and Managing Logical Printers
A logical printer object is an abstraction that indicates particular
characteristics and capabilities of one or more physical printers. Users
specify logical printers when they print jobs to direct their print data to a set
of devices that can satisfy the job and document requirements.
Use the pdcreate command to create a logical printer and specify a spooler
server as part of the operand as shown in the following command-line syntax
statement:
pdcreate [-c printer] [-x extended_attribute_string] [-X attribute_filename-
spooler_name: printer_name]
When you create a logical printer, the associated spooler:
• Registers the logical printer with the name service.
• Initializes the new logical printer as disabled. You must use the
pdenable command to enable the new logical printer.
• Adds the name of the new logical printer to the logical-printers-
supported attribute of the spooler.
The print system requires the name of the queue associated with the logical
printer before you can enable the logical printer. Though you can set the
corresponding associated-queue attribute subsequent to the object
creation, the recommendation is to specify it with the pdcreate command.
If you specify the associated-queue attribute with the
pdcreate command, the associated spooler updates the spooler
logical-printers-supported attribute. If you specify associated-queue, the
specified queue must exist or the operation fails.
You can also specify initial-value-job and initial-value-document
objects to set job and document defaults for the logical printer with the
printer-initial-value-job and printer-initial-value-document
attributes. You can set the attributes with the pdcreate command or with
the pdset command after the object creation.
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