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Printers, Print Jobs, and Queues for Systems Administrators
Changing / Showing Pre–Processing Filters
This procedure describes how to change or show the command strings that you can run to
pre–process print files. A pre–processing filter consists of a command string that you pass
to a Korn shell to filter a file before it prints. There are pre–processing filters for each of the
values that can be specified with the qprt command –f flag or with the lpr command
FilterOption flags.
Prerequisites
To change or show pre–processing filters, you must be one of the following:
• root
• A member of the printq group.
Procedure
1. At the system prompt, type:
wsm printers
2. In the Web-based System Manager Printers container, double click on the ”Print
Processor icon. From the Selected menu choose Properties. Information on
changing/showing pre–processing filters will be displayed in the ”Layout” tab of the ”Print
Processing Properties” dialog.
You can also perform this task with the SMIT fast path smit pqfilters .