HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 6 121

Conﬁguring Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Creating and Conﬁguring Logical Printers

Conﬁguring the Logical Printer

Because logical printers perform so many important functions, how you

conﬁgure logical printers is a large part of conﬁguring your system.

Refer to the following topics later in this chapter that describe how you

conﬁgure logical printers:

• “Conﬁguring Logical Printers for Defaulting and Restriction”

• “Conﬁguring Logical Printers for Workload Balancing”

• “Conﬁguring Logical Printers with DCE Security”

• “Conﬁguring Logical Printers as HPDPS Gateway Printers”

Once you have completed your logical printer conﬁguration activities,

enable the logical printer to accept jobs as described under “Enabling a

Logical Printer” later in this chapter.

It is important to understand job and document defaulting and job

validation to perform many of the steps necessary to conﬁgure logical

printers on your system. These topics are discussed next.

Job Defaulting and Validation

Job validation is the process of ensuring that there is a physical printer

with the capability to process the job and the documents in the job. The

job and document requirements are determined by the values of the job

and document attributes. Job and document attribute values are

determined by the user, by initial value objects, or by server defaults for

certain attribute values not speciﬁed by either the user or by initial

value objects.

Figure 6-4, “Job Defaulting and Validation,” shows the three steps in job

defaulting and validation. The steps are further described following the

ﬁgure.