HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Conﬁguring Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Conﬁguring Logical Printers for Defaulting and Restriction

3. Create the logical printer, LogPrt3:

pdcreate -x "printer-initial-value-document=IVD2 \

printer-initial-value-job=IVJ1 \

associated-queue=Queue1" Spool1:LogPrt3

Jobs submitted to LogPrt3 will have some job attribute values provided

by IVJ1 and will have some document attribute values provided by IVD2.

Some of the other document attributes have default values; for instance,

copy-count defaults to 1. Some of the other job attributes and some of

the document attributes will default to have no default value.

Using Logical Printers to Restrict the Use of Printer

Capabilities

When you create a physical printer, the

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supported attributes

represent a capability of the printer device. For example, if the

sides-supported attribute is equal to "1 2", the printer can print on

either one side or both sides of the paper.

Users submit jobs to logical printers. Logical printers also have

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supported attributes, but these attributes default to no value when

you create a logical printer. When you create a logical printer and assign

values to this type of attribute, the logical printer represents an abstract

set of physical printer capabilities. Several logical printers can represent

a single physical printer, with each representing some or all of the

capabilities of the physical printer. This is illustrated in Figure 6-7,

“Using Logical Printers to Restrict Printer Capabilities,”. Each logical

printer represents a subset of the capabilities of PhyPrt2.