HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Creating/Configuring Supervisors and Physical Printers
Creating and Configuring Physical Printers
pdcreate -c printer -x "printer-model=MyModel \
attachment-type=tcpip internet-address=11.0.23.34" \
Super1:MyPrt1
Configuring Physical Printers
Use the pdset command to add or modify attributes and values after you
have initially created a physical printer object. The default class for the
pdset command is printer. Therefore, you do not have to use -c
printer with the pdset command when modifying attributes of a
physical printer. See the HP Distributed Print Service User’s Guide for
information on classes.
Descriptive Attributes
You can use the following attributes to provide information about the
physical printer. None of these attributes have default values.
descriptor Thissingle-valuedattribute describes
the printer device represented by the
physical printer (see the HP
Distributed Print Service User’s
Guide for information on
single-valued vs. multi-valued
attributes). You can specify a text
string up to 4095 characters in
length. The type of information you
can specify initiallyin the description
includes location and usage
information for the printer.
list-of-managers This multi-valued attribute lists
information about the people in your
organization who are responsible for
the printer device that the physical
printer represents. You can specify a
text string up to 255 characters in
length for each value.
printer-locations This multi-valued attribute describes
the location of the printer device. You
can specify a description up to 4095
characters in length for each value.
Specifying this attribute allows users