Installation guide

• Modifying characteristics of existing printers
• Removing printers from the system
• Enabling printer accounting
• Controlling printer operations by using the lpc command
Note that if you manually remove printers from the /etc/printcap file,
you also have to remove spooling, accounting, and error directories and files.
10.6.1 Adding Printers
Once you have one printer set up, you can add other printers at any time.
Gather the following information about each printer:
• Printer name
• Printer type
• Printer synonyms
• Device pathname
• Accounting file name
• Spooling directory name
• Error log file name
• Connection type
• Baud rate
You can add printers by running the lprsetup command or you can add
printers manually by performing the following steps:
1. Create a printer spooling directory. Refer to Section 10.7.2.2.
2. Create the /etc/printcap file and edit it to include a description of
the printer. Refer to Section 10.7.3.
3. Create an accounting file and a log file and enable printer accounting.
Refer to Section 10.6.4.
You should make sure that the /etc/inittab file does not invoke the
getty process on serial lines that have printers attached. If you use the
lprsetup script, this is done for you.
10.6.2 Modifying Printers
To modify a printer’s configuration automatically, run the lprsetup
program and choose the modify option from the main menu. Section 10.5.2
describes how to use the lprsetup program.
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