HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Conﬁguring Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Creating and Conﬁguring Logical Printers

You use logical printers to set up the ﬂow of jobs in your system. Among

other things, they provide job and document defaulting and enable

restricting of access to physical printers.

You can create and conﬁgure logical printers using SAM or the command

line interface, as described below.

Creating the Logical Printer

After you have created the queue for the logical printer, as described

under “Creating a Queue”, create an HPDPS logical printer to be

managed by a speciﬁc HPDPS spooler.

For example, to create the logical printer, LogPrt1 in spooler Spool1,

enter:

pdcreate -x "associated-queue=Queue1" \

Spool1:LogPrt1

The number of logical printers that you will need and the characteristics

and purpose for each logical printer depends on the following

considerations:

• the number of physical printers you have and their capabilities

• the number of users and their printing needs

• the types of printing supported; a large number of small, on-demand

jobs versus a small number of large production jobs, or some

combination of the two

• print management concerns such as printer workload balancing or

restricting printer usage for security and other reasons

• other needs of your company, organization, and printing environment

“Selecting Logical Conﬁguration Models” in Chapter 3 introduces the

logical printer conﬁguration models that you can use based on these

considerations.