HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Managing Supervisors and Physical Printers

Deleting a Physical Printer

If a printer is enabled, issuing the pddelete command automatically

disables and deletes it. However, you may want to disable the physical

printer with the pddisable command before you delete it. Disabling the

physical printer prevents HPDPS from scheduling any new jobs to the

physical printer. In most cases, you will disable the physical printer and

wait for all scheduled jobs to ﬁnish printing before you delete the

physical printer. If you cannot wait and need to cancel processing jobs,

see “Cancelling Processing Jobs” earlier.

If you are deleting the physical printer because you are moving the

printer device to a different system, you may want to create an archive

ﬁle so that you can re-create the physical printer. See “Creating Archive

Files for Supervisors and Supervisor Objects” earlier.

For example, to delete the physical printer PhyPrt3, enter:

pddelete PhyPrt3

HPDPS displays a conﬁrmation message. After you respond

afﬁrmatively to the message, HPDPS deletes the physical printer.

If the value of the PD_CONFIRM_DELETE environment variable is no, you

will not receive a conﬁrmation message.