HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 10 321

Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers

Performing Routine Physical Printer Tasks

This section describes the tasks of changing the media loaded in a

printer device and performing preventive maintenance for a printer.

Changing the Media in Printers

In the following example, the printer device currently has yellow paper

loaded and you are changing that to white paper.

1. Disable the physical printer representing the printer device in which

you will load a new media. Enter:

pddisable PhyPrt2

2. Replace the yellow paper with the new media. Enter:

pdset -x "media-ready=iso-a4-white" PhyPrt2

3. Enable the physical printer with the following command:

pdenable PhyPrt2

Jobs can now be scheduled to the physical printer.

Performing Preventative Maintenance on the Printer

Device

If you are taking the printer device off line for maintenance, for example

to add supplies or to perform scheduled service, ﬁrst disable the physical

printer. Alternatively, if the physical printer that you are maintaining is

the only physical printer associated with the queue, you can disable the

logical printer or printers that send jobs to the queue. Then, you can let

all the jobs in the queue ﬁnishprinting on the physical printer before you

disable it. Disabling the logical printer also prevents new jobs from being

queued while you perform printer maintenance.

You can use the message attribute of one or more logical printers that

send jobs to the physical printer to notify the users that the physical

printer is out of service. To do this, enter:

pddisable -x "message='Physical printer PhyPrt5 not available

because of maintenance.'" LogPrt4 LogPrt5