Specifications

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Guide to Printers and Printing
Prioritizing a print job (qpri command)
This section discusses how to change the priority of a print job. You can only assign job
priority on local queues. Higher values indicate a higher priority for the print job. The default
priority is 15. The maximum priority is 20 for most users, and 30 for users with root user
privilege and members of the printq group (group 9 ).
Note: You cannot assign priority to a remote print job.
Prerequisite
The printer must be physically attached to your system.
Web–based System Manager
To change the priority of a queued print job using Web–based System Manager, enter wsm,
and then select Printers.
In the Printer Queues window, select the print job, and then use the menus to set the priority
for that job in a local print queue.
qpri command
Use the qpri command to reassign the priority of a print job that you submitted. If you have
root user authority or belong to the printq group, you can assign priority to any job while it
is in the print queue.
The basic format of the qpri command is:
qpri –# JobNumber –a PriorityLevel
See the qpri command in the AIX 5L Version 5.3 Commands Reference for the complete
syntax.
The following list contains examples of how to use the qpri command:
• To change job number 123 to priority number 18, enter:
qpri –# 123 –a 18
• To prioritize a local print job as it is submitted, enter:
qprt –PQueueName –R PriorityLevel FileName
smit command
To change the priority of a print job using SMIT, enter:
smit qpri