HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Conﬁguring Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Other Logical Printer Conﬁguration Tasks

This section describes some miscellaneous tasks you may need to

perform when you create logical printers.

Specifying a Description for the Logical Printer

Use the descriptor attribute to specify a text string up to 4095

characters in length that describes the logical printer. While the use of

this attribute is optional, a description is useful if you have a large

number of logical printers or if you have many people managing your

distributed print environment. The type of information you can specify

initially in the description of the logical printer includes:

• the name of the department or the account number of the users who

use the logical printer

• usage information, such as whether the logical printer provides

default values for jobs or restricts usage of physical printer

capabilities

If you do not specify a value for the descriptor attribute, HPDPS does

not provide a default.

For example, to set a description for the logical printer LogPrt1, enter:

pdset -x "descriptor='Accounting Dept. sends jobs to this \

logical

printer. It restricts some document attributes.'" LogPrt1

NOTE You can also set up a list of key contacts for the logical printer by setting

the list-of-managers attribute with the pdset command. See

“Specifying Key Contacts for the Spooler” earlier for an example of

specifying values for this attribute.

Receiving Logical Printer Notiﬁcation Messages

You receive notiﬁcation messages about events associated with the

logical printer through the notiﬁcation proﬁle for the logical printer. The