Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Administering a System: Managing Printers, Software, and Performance
Managing Printers
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Managing Printers
NOTE The term “plotter” can be used interchangeably with the term “printer”
throughout this section. Thus, all features ascribed to printers can be
performed with plotters.
This section deals with two approaches for administering printers: the
traditional UNIX LP spooler and the HP Distributed Printer Server
(HPDPS).
• For conceptual information about print management, see “Planning
your Printer Configuration” on page 105.
• For procedures to configure a print management system, see
“Configuring Printers for a Workgroup” on page 433
Administering the LP Spooler
The following procedures are used to administer the LP Spooler:
• “Stopping and Restarting the LP Spooler” on page 703
• “Controlling the Flow of Print Requests” on page 704
• “Enabling or Disabling a Printer” on page 704
• “Setting a Printer’s Fence Priority” on page 705
• “Changing a Printer’s Default Request Priority” on page 705
Table 7-1 in “Summary of Additional Printer Tasks” on page 706 gives
further system-administration instructions for common management
tasks.
Table 7-2 in “Solving Common Printer Problems” on page 707 provides
troubleshooting information for potential print-management difficulties.
Table 7-3 on page 709 and Table 7-4 on page 709 list HP-UX commands
that may be used to handle print requests.