HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Conﬁguring Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Creating and Conﬁguring Initial-Value-Job and Initial-Value-Document

Objects

Creating and Conﬁguring Initial-Value-Job

and Initial-Value-Document Objects

You can use initial-value-job and initial-value-document objects, as

deﬁned in Chapter 1, to assign default values to job and document

attributes. You can associate the initial value objects with a logical

printer to which the users submit their jobs or users can reference the

initial value object directly at the job submission.

This section describes the basic steps for creating initial-value-job and

initial-value-document objects and associating them with logical

printers. “Conﬁguring Logical Printers for Defaulting and Restriction”

later describes how to conﬁgure logical printers with initial value objects

that provide job and document attribute values. Initial value objects also

are sometimes required with logical printers that are set up to restrict

access to particular physical printer capabilities. See “Using Logical

Printers to Restrict the Use of Printer Capabilities” later for an example

conﬁguration that uses initial value objects to enforce restrictions.

Job and document attribute values are derived from other sources in

addition to initial value objects. Users can specify the values for job and

document attributes when they submit jobs. The spooler assigns default

values to certain job and document attributes if users or initial value

objects do not specify values for the attributes. Refer to “Job Defaulting

and Validation” later for a description of job and document defaulting

and job validation.

What Attributes Can You Specify for Initial Value

Objects?

The attributes for initial-value-document objects include all of the

settable document and job attributes. For each type of initial-value-job

and document object, there are additional attributes that pertain to the

object itself, such as initial-value-job-identifier. This attribute

speciﬁes the name of the object and identiﬁes the object within the

spooler. See pd_att_ivjob(5) and pd_att_ivdocument(5) for a complete

listing of the attributes for initial value objects.