System information
Rel. 7.0 and 8.0 Red Book for AIX
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• Press Enter to submit your changes and return to the previous menu.
5. Confirm that the printer was added, as follows:
• Select List All Hosts and press Enter.
• Press 0 while holding down the Esc key (Esc+0) to return to the system prompt.
To create a print queue:
1. At the system prompt (#), enter smit queue to display the Print Spooling screen.
2. Select Add a Print Queue and press Enter to display the Add a Print Queue screen.
3. Select remote and press Enter to display the Add a Remote Print Queue screen.
4. Select Standard Processing and press Enter.
5. In the Name of Queue to add field, type lp# (where # is the number of the printer).
6. In the Hostname of remote server field, type lp# (where # is the number of the printer).
7. In the Name of Queue on remote server field, select the name, depending on the device:
• pcl1 – Extended Systems Devices on port 1.
• pcl2 – Extended Systems Devices on port 2.
• lp# – Jet Direct Card (where # is the number of the printer).
• pclnf1 – Dot Matrix printer not form feeding.
8. In the Description of printer on remote server field, enter lp#.
9. In the Backend TIME OUT period (minutes) field, enter 999.
Putting 999 in this field insures that you have 999 minutes before your printer times out
and goes into a DOWN status as indicated by the command: lpstat.
10. Press Enter to submit your changes and return to the previous menu.
11. Press 0 while holding down the Esc key (Esc+0) to return to the system prompt.
To set up the printer in UniVerse:
1. At the system prompt (#), enter the following command to display the UniVerse System
Administration screen:
su - uv
Note: If the system displays the UniVerse prompt (>), type login to display the
UniVerse System Administration screen.
2. Select Spooler Management > Device Management > Maintain Devices to display the
Maintain Devices screen.
3. In the Printer Name field, enter lp# (where # is the number of the printer).
4. In the Unix Pathname field, enter /dev/null.