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Conﬁguring Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

6 Conﬁguring Spoolers, Queues,

and Logical Printers

The procedures in this chapter describe how to complete initial

conﬁguration activities for HPDPS spoolers, queues, and logical printers

using the command line interface. To control defaulting for your HPDPS

print environment, use the initial-value-job and initial-value-document

objects. See “Job and Document Attributes” in Chapter 1 for more

information.

The spooler manages jobs before they are sent to physical printers. The

spooler also manages and controls logical printers and queues. The

spooler validates the attributes of a job against the attributes of the

logical printer to which the job was submitted. The spooler then ensures

that there is a physical printer associated with the queue that is capable

of printing the job. The spooler schedules jobs for printing on physical

printers based on the requirements of the jobs.

In addition to queues and logical printers, you can create and conﬁgure

initial-value-job and initial-value-document objects in the spooler and

associate them with logical printers to control job and document

defaulting. An initial value object also can be referenced by a user during

print submission for job and document defaulting.

NOTE In the DCE Extended Environment, you must have DCE read, write, and

delete permissions to use the pdcreate command as described in this

chapter. You must have DCE read and write permissions to use the

pdset and pdenable commands.

In the Basic Environment, you must be logged in as root to perform the

tasks within this chapter..