HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 5 93

Creating/Conﬁguring Supervisors and Physical Printers

Creating and Conﬁguring Physical Printers

You can create and conﬁgure HPDPS physical printers from SAM or

from the command line.

From the command line, you create and conﬁgure a physical printer

using the pdcreate command. After you create the physical printer, you

can use the pdset command to further conﬁgure the physical printer.

When you have completed your physical printer conﬁguration activities,

you use the pdenable command to enable the physical printer to accept

jobs.

When you are ready to conﬁgure a new printer device as a physical

printer, you must know the following:

• the printer model

The value of the printer-model attribute determines the default

attributes of the printer based on the printer capabilities.

To obtain a list of printer models that your server supports, enter:

pdls -c server -r printer-models-supported

ServerName

• how the printer is connected to the system

The value of the attachment-type physical printer attribute

identiﬁes how the supervisor connects to your printer. When you

create the physical printer, you specify attributes according to the

attachment-type. The attachment-type attribute values and their

required physical printer attributes follow in Table 5-1.

Table 5-1 Summary of Key Attributes According to attachment-type

attachment-type values Required Attributes

serial, parallel — printer-model

— device-name

tcpip — printer-model

—internet-address