HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers
Querying for Physical Printer Information
needs-key-operator This state occurs when there is a serious
problem with the printer device. Either the physical
printer cannot connect to the printer device or there is
some other problem. HPDPS automatically disables
the physical printer when the physical printer enters
this state.
paused The physical printer has been paused with the pdpause
command.
printing The physical printer is processing a job.
timed-out The physical printer received a job, but the physical
printer could not connect to the printer device in the
time specified by the printer-timeout-period
physical printer attribute. The supervisor continues to
try to connect to the printer. You will receive
notification of this state.
Refer to “Responding to Physical Printer State Problems” shortly for
more information on these states.
Determining Whether a Physical Printer is
Registered
Use the pdls command with the -c printer and -r
registered-with-spooler flag to determine whether a specificphysical
printer is registered with the spooler. The value of the
registered-with-spooler attribute indicates whether the physical
printer is communicating with the spooler that contains the queue from
which the physical printer receives jobs.
For example, to determine whether physical printer PhyPrt4 is
registered, enter:
pdls -c printer -s column -r brief,registered-with-spooler \
PhyPrt4
HPDPS displays information similar to the following:
Registered
Printer Realization State Enabled Queue with Spooler
------- ----------- ----- ------- ------ -------------
PhyPrt4 physical idle true idspl-q true
Under some circumstances there might be a period when the physical
printer indicates that it is registered with the spooler when it is not. For