HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers

Supporting Special Media

If there is no such operator available, you need to develop procedures for

your organization to support users requiring special media. For example,

conﬁgure separate logical printers, queues, and physical printers for

non-standard media and ensure that the associated printer devices

always have the correct media loaded.

Sending Media-Related Messages to Operators

If you support a special media, but that media is not always loaded in a

particular printer device, you can instruct your users to submit their jobs

with a message. The message goes to the operator speciﬁed by the

notify-operator queue attribute.

For example, a user with a job requiring the iso-a4-colored medium

could issue the command:

pdpr -p LogPrt7 -x "job-message-to-operator='Please load \

yellow iso-a4 in the printer for this job.'" File1.txt

You need to ensure that the correct person is speciﬁed by the

notify-operator attribute; see “Specifying Who Receives Messages

From Users” in Chapter 6 for information on setting up this attribute.