HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks

4 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.
• For conceptual information about print management, see HP-UX System
Administrator’s Guide: Overview.
• For procedures to configure a print management system, see HP-UX System
Administrator’s Guide: Configuration Management.
This chapter deals with the tasks you need to do to configure a new system into the
network and the workgroup, and to set up shared access to resources such as files and
printers and services such as mail and backups:
Administering the LP Spooler
The following procedures are used to administer the LP Spooler:
• “Stopping and Restarting the LP Spooler ” (page 163)
• “Controlling the Flow of Print Requests” (page 164)
• “Enabling or Disabling a Printer” (page 165)
• “Setting a Printer’s Fence Priority ” (page 165)
• “Changing a Printer’s Default Request Priority” (page 166)
Table 4-1 in “Summary of Additional Printer Tasks” (page 166) gives further
system-administration instructions for common management tasks.
Table 4-2 in “Solving Common Printer Problems ” (page 167) provides troubleshooting
information for potential print-management difficulties.
Table 4-3 (page 168) and Table 4-4 (page 169) list HP-UX commands that may be used
to handle print requests.
Stopping and Restarting the LP Spooler
Typically, the LP spooler is started during the boot process. (To change the boot-up
procedure to not start the scheduler, edit the file /etc/rc.config.d/lp and set the
shell environment variable LP to 0.)
The spooler must be stopped whenever the spooling system is modified (such as when
adding or removing a printer) and then restarted after the modification is made. You
can use either the HP System Management Homepage or HP-UX commands to stop
or start the LP spooler.
Administering the LP Spooler 163