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Guide to Printers and Printing
Changing or showing pre–processing filters
This procedure describes how to change or show the command strings that you can run to
pre–process print files. A pre–processing filter consists of a command string that you pass
to a Korn shell to filter a file before it prints. There are pre–processing filters for each of the
values that can be specified with the qprt command –f flag or with the lpr command
FilterOption flags.
Prerequisites
To change or show pre–processing filters, you must be one of the following:
• A user with root authority
• A member of the printq group
Web–based System Manager
1. At the system prompt, enter wsm, and then select Printers.
2. In the Web–based System Manager Printers window, double–click the Print Processor
icon. From the Selected menu, select Properties. Information on changing or showing
pre–processing filters is displayed in the Layout tab of the Print Processing Properties
dialog.
You can also perform this task with the SMIT fast path smit pqfilters.