HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 9 263

Managing Spoolers, Queues, and Logical Printers

Querying for Logical Printer Information

This section describes how to query the values of attributes that reﬂect

the status of the logical printer and whether there are associated

physical printers that are ready and enabled to receive jobs from the

logical printer.

Querying for the Status of a Logical Printer

Unlike spoolers, logical printers do not have different states; logical

printers are either enabled or disabled. The value of the non-settable

enabled logical printer attribute indicates the status of the logical

printer.

To query the status of the logical printer LogPrt1, enter:

pdls -c printer LogPrt1

HPDPS displays information similar to the following:

Printer Realization Enabled Queue

------- ----------- ------- -----

LogPrt1 logical true Queue1

The command in this example also displays the queue that receives jobs

from the logical printer. A logical printer cannot be enabled unless it is

associated with a queue.

NOTE The enabled attribute is one of the predeﬁned attributes of the brief

option of the -r ﬂag for the pdls command. brief is the default for the

-r ﬂag. Therefore, the command in this example is equivalent to

entering:

pdls -c printer -r brief LogPrt1