HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Configuration Management

6 Configuring Printers
Printers can be connected in three ways:
• Local: physically connected to the system.
• Remote: physically connected to another system.
• Network: installed as a domain on a LAN.
This chapter describes how to perform the following procedures:
• “Starting and Stopping the LP Spooler” (page 111)
• “Adding a Local Printer to the LP Spooler” (page 112)
• “Adding a Remote Printer to the LP Spooler” (page 113)
• “Adding a Network Printer with HP JetDirect” (page 116)
• “Creating a Printer Class” (page 117)
• “Removing a Printer from the LP Spooler” (page 118)
• “Removing a Printer from a Printer Class” (page 119)
• “Removing a Printer Class” (page 120)
NOTE: Configured printers can be managed with the LDAP-UX Printer Configurator
Services. See the LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Administrator’s Guide for details.
For conceptual information about print-management topics, see the HP-UX System
Administrator’s Guide: Overview. Such topics include:
• Planning your printer configuration.
• Remote spooling concepts.
• Printer model files: providing information for the -m option of the lpadmin
command. See also lpadmin(1M).
• Printer queues and printer classes for grouping printers logically.
• A processing overview.
For procedures on maintaining your printer environment, see the HP-UX System
Administrator’s Guide: Routine Tasks. Such topics include:
• Controlling the flow of print requests to printer queues with accept and reject.
See also accept(1M).
• Starting and stopping locally queued print jobs from being sent to the associated
printer with enable and disable. See also enable(1).
Starting and Stopping the LP Spooler
Before you can print using the LP spooler, one or more printers must be configured
and the scheduler started. At the first system boot, the scheduler is not started if no
printers are configured.
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