NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Sending Jobs to Network Printers Using CAPTURE and NPRINT
Using NPRINT
Tips on Using NPRINT
• Default options include a banner page, no tabs, and form feed. You can override
the default options by specifying options at the command line.
• If you use an application that does not format print jobs for your printer, NetWare
supplies 58 printer definitions for printers. Import one of these or create your own
using NetWare Administrator or PRINTDEF. Each printer definition contain the
functions and modes for the printer.
Printer definitions can only be referenced in print job configurations. To print a
non-ASCII file that is not formatted for the printer, NPRINT must use the
J=name option to specify the print job configuration that includes the printer
definition unless the correct job configuration is the default.
• If you specify a print job configuration that has a large printer mode, you can
increase the bytes (default 64, range 0 to 255) in the PRINTER
HEADER=number option. See Chapter 2, “NET.CFG Options Reference” in
NetWare Client for DOS and MS Windows Technical Reference.
• Options with no filename specified require a preceding forward slash (“/”),
including /D, /H, /?, and /VER.
• No options are needed if a default printer or print queue is specified in a default
print job configuration.
• NetWare Services now allows you to specify the printer name instead of a print
Printer P=name Indicates to which printer the print job should be sent; you
may specify a default in a print job configuration.
Server S=name Specifies the NetWare server if you want the print job sent to a
bindery print queue. Not used for Directory Services print
queues. Default = current tree or server.
Tabs T=number
(1-18)
Specifies the number of spaces to be substituted for each tab
in a print job (default=8). Specify NT (No tabs) for byte
stream print jobs.
Version /VER Displays version information for this utility. Also lists the
names and version number of all files required to run this
utility.
Table 4-4 NPRINT Options
Option Syntax Description