Installation guide
If your printer will be connected to a remote LAT terminal server, ensure
that the LAT subsets are installed as described in the Installation Guide.
To see if the LAT subsets are installed, enter:
# setld -i | grep OSFLAT
See the Network Administration guide for information on how to enable
remote LAT terminal server printing.
10.5.4 Testing Printers
Test your printer by using the lpr command to print a few pages of text.
You should also test any special printer features that you intend to use
regularly on this printer, for example, PostScript or double-sided print.
Refer to the lpr
(1) reference page for more information on how to invoke
these features. Table 10–4 lists the printcap symbol names, the type of
values they take, default values, and descriptions.
The lptest command writes a traditional ripple test pattern to the
standard output, or you can direct the output to a printer. A pattern that
contains all 96 printable ASCII characters in each column is printed using
96 lines. In the pattern, each printed character is displaced rightward one
character column on each successive line. This test is also useful for
ascertaining the number of lines per page and the default page parameters.
You can use the ripple test pattern to test printers, terminals, and drive
terminal ports during debugging.
The lptest command has the following syntax:
/usr/sbin/lptest
[ length[ count]]
Use the lptest command if you need quick output of random data. For
example:
# /usr/sbin/lptest |lpr -P3r44
Refer to the lptest(8) reference page for more information.
10.6 Routine Operations
The first part of this chapter showed you how to set up the first printer on
a system. This section describes the routine administrative tasks for a
print system that is already set up. You can use the lprsetup script to
perform these tasks. You can also perform the tasks manually by editing
system files and creating files and directories. If you are making many
changes to the print system at one time, it may be easier for you to make
the changes manually. The tasks described in the following sections are:
• Adding new printers to the system
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