HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers
Job-Related Tasks for Physical Printer Management
multiple jobs, additional jobs could be sent to the printer. You could
also disable the printer to prevent this, but most of the time this is
not necessary.
• Disable the physical printer if it must be unavailable for a longer
period of time. For example, if the printer device needs to be out of
service for one or two hours for routine maintenance, you should
disable it.
When you disable the physical printer, no more jobs will be sent to it.
However, all jobs currently received by the physical printer continue
processing. Under most circumstances you will let jobs sent to the
physical printer finish printing.
When you disable a physical printer, you have to decide what to do
with the jobs already scheduled to the physical printer. Most of the
time you will not modify the jobs. However, for individual jobs, you
have the capability of:
— cancelling them
— cancelling them with a retention period and resubmitting them to
the same printer later
— cancelling them with a retention period and resubmitting them to
a different logical printer, queue, and physical printer
Also, when you pause or disable a physical printer, there could be jobs
in the queue associated with the physical printer that are waiting to
be scheduled; this might be the only physical printer that supports
those particular jobs. If the physical printer is going to be disabled
and out of service for a long time, you have to decide how to manage
these jobs. If the printer will be unavailable for a substantial amount
of time, you can update the message attribute to alert other users.
See “Managing Jobs in Queues and Spoolers” in Chapter 11 for
information on managing jobs in queues.
Disabling a Physical Printer
When you disable a physical printer, it will not accept any additional
jobs. The job or jobs currently sent to the printer will finish printing.
To disable the physical printer PhyPrt3, enter:
pddisable PhyPrt3
To disable physical printer PhyPrt3 and include a message, enter: