HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Creating/Conﬁguring Supervisors and Physical Printers

Creating and Conﬁguring Physical Printers

to request a speciﬁc location at which

their jobs will be printed. HPDPS

compares the value of the job

attribute

printer-locations-requested to

this attribute during job validation

and scheduling.

Determining Attributes of a Physical Printer

To determine the value of attributes for a particular printer, you can use

either SAM or the command line interface. Within SAM, select

"View/Modify". When using the command line, use the -r ﬂag.

For example, to determine the document formats supported by the

physical printer PhyPrt1 whose printer model you speciﬁed as

LaserJet4Si, enter:

pdls -c printer -r document-formats-supported PhyPrt1

HPDPS displays information similar to the following:

PhyPrt1: document-formats-supported = ascii

hpgl2

passthru

pcl

pjl

postscript

If you want to change or limit the document formats, use the pdset

command. For example, to limit the document formats supported by

physical printer PhyPrt1 to ascii and postscript, enter:

pdset -x "document-formats-supported=ascii postscript" PhyPrt1

Enabling a Physical Printer

Enabling the printer allows it to accept jobs after you have completed the

conﬁguration tasks for the other HPDPS components.

If you use SAM to add a physical printer, SAM will enable the printer.

When using the command line, use the pdenable command after you

have created and conﬁgured a physical printer.