Note: The information contained in this article is structured as help information for the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and is not intended for general reading.
Select the desired printer or plotter type from the list of predefined printer or plotter types. Information about the device is presented in two columns: printer or plotter device type and device description.
Identifies the predefined device type of the printer or plotter. Select List to view the available printer types. If the type of printer or plotter you want is not in the list, select the Install New Printer Type item. This enables you to install additional printer software.
Select the adapter to which the printer is attached. The possible adapters are presented in a list with four columns of information: adapter device name, adapter state, adapter location code, and adapter information.
Provides a short description of the printer.
Identifies the logical name of the adapter device to which the printer or plotter is attached or will be attached.
Allows you to selectively install some or all of the individual printer/plotter device software packages that exist on the installation media (or directory).
Specifies where to obtain the paper for the print job. Use the List feature to select from a list of paper sources.
Indicates the pitch (characters per inch) to be used by the print job.
Indicates the type style, or typeface, to be used by the print job.
Displays the data stream type of the virtual printer.
Specifies the data stream type of the virtual printer. Select data stream type from available options..
Specify the file or device to which the print job is redirected to.
Specifies the queue associated with the PostScript data stream type.
Specifies the queue associated with the PCL data stream type.
Specifies the queue associated with the ASCII data stream type.
Specifies the queue associated with the GL data stream type.
Specifies the queue associated with the Kanji data stream type.
Specifies the queue associated with the HP_855 data stream type.
Specifies the queue associated with the Diablo_630 data stream type.
Specifies the name of the printer for the new queue. Select printer name from available options.
Specifies whether the queue type is remote or local.
Specifies the print job name.
Starts a print job by submitting the job to a print queue.
Select the Xstation printer port where the printer is connected.
Displays or modifies a virtual printer attribute database. A separate database exists for each printer on each print queue and refers only to the high-level data stream (such as ASCII or PostScript) that the printer understands.
Displays or modifies various filters used to preprocess print files.
Select the print queue and printer combination whose preprocessing filters you want to show or change.
Specifies the port on the X-station to which the printer is attached. Select port from available option.
A virtual printer is a view of a printer that refers only to the high-level data stream (such as ASCII or PostScript) that the printer understands.
A virtual printer is a view of a printer that refers only to the high-level data stream (such as ASCII or PostScript) that the printer understands. Choosing this menu allows you to add a virtual printer and its print queue to the system configuration.
A virtual printer is a view of a printer that refers only to the high-level data stream (such as ASCII or PostScript) that the printer understands. Choosing this menu displays the characteristics of a virtual printer and changes those characteristics.
A virtual printer is a view of a printer that refers only to the high-level data stream (such as ASCII or PostScript) that the printer understands. Choosing this menu removes the virtual printer and its print queue from the system configuration.
Configures print queues on your local print system.
Specifies that a print queue be stopped or brought down.
Specifies that a print queue be stopped or brought down.
Specifies that a print queue be started or brought up.
Specifies that a print queue be started or brought up.
Removes a print queue from the system configuration.
Removes a print queue from the system configuration.
Configures local queue devices for printers and queues that are already configured.
Adds a queue device to an already configured queue that may contain one or more queue devices.
Configures a remote printer system, including queues, queue devices, and virtual printers.
Lists, adds, removes, and shows the status of remote printer queues and queue devices.
Enables the lpd remote subsystem and determines remote printing privileges.
Configures print queues on a remote print system.
Controls which remote hosts have permission to send output to a printer.
Allows you to add a foreign host name to the list of names in the /etc/hosts.equiv file.
Allows you to delete a foreign host name from the list of names in the /etc/hosts.equiv file.
Provides the remote print server on the network.
Starts the lpd subsystem.
Starts the lpd subsystem.
Starts or stops the lpd subsystem running now.
Starts or stops the lpd subsystem at the next system restart.
Starts the lpd subsystem now and at system restart.
Causes the lpd subsystem to be restarted with the options of using debug mode or system logging.
Causes the lpd subsystem to be restarted with the options of using debug mode or system logging.
Use the List feature to select one of the following fields:
neither - Does not enter debug mode or turn on system logging.
DEBUG - Enters debug mode.
SYSLOG - Starts the syslogd daemon.
DEBUG and SYSLOG - Enters debug mode and starts the syslogd daemon.
Stops the remote lpd subsystem immediately and edits the /etc/inittab file so that the lpd remote subsystem will not be reactivated at the next system restart.
Adds a remote queue to the system configuration.
Adds a remote queue to the system configuration.
Configures remote queue devices for printers and queues that are already configured.
Adds a queue to the system configuration.
Performs system administrative functions for the printer spooling system, such as bringing a printer up or down, offline or online.
Specifies the name of the queue device that you want to change or show.
Specifies the name of the queue from which a device is removed.
Identifies the predefined device type of the printer or plotter.
Identifies the type of interface. This is the same as the predefined device subclass of the printer or plotter.
Indicates the current status of the device. Possible values are available, indicating that the device is configured in the system and ready to use; and defined, indicating that the device is defined to the system but not configured.
Holds a job on the queue. The job is not printed until explicitly released.
This option prints the specified user name after the "DELIVER TO" item on the header page. The BURST pages attribute must be set to aa or an to correctly set the USER NAME attribute.
Adds a print queue to the system configuration.
Information identifying a particular printer, for example: The printer on the 2nd floor. A message catalog reference of the form 'catalog.cat, #, #; text' (contained in square brackets) may appear the first time this field is changed. You can type over this value.
There is more than one printer associated with the chosen print queue. Select the desired printer.
Displays the characteristics of a queue and changes those characteristics.
Allows you to change characteristics of the selected remote print queue.
The chosen print queue has more than one printer associated with it. Select the printer you want to change.
Specify the name of a previously created print queue that you want to share with another printer.
Specifies the job classification on the burst page.
Specifies the number of spaces to indent the output. The default is eight spaces.
Specifies the width of the page.
Specifies the job name on the burst page. The default is the name of the first file in the job.
If the files to be printed are not standard text files, select the appropriate filter.
Specifies the title to be used, instead of the file name, by the pr command.
Specifies whether you want to receive a message when the print job completes.
Choose the type of connection interface used by the printer attached to the Xstation.
There are three types of remote print queues:
Indicates whether the input paper drawers should be linked. When paper drawers are linked the printer will automatically switch to the secondary drawer after the primary drawer is empty.
Specifies the resolution (in dots per inch) of text converted to PostScript. The quality of the printed output increases as the resolution increases.
Specifies that the print job is to use italic print.
The name of the device to be deleted from the specified queue. Use the List function to display the available device names.
Enter a specific print job number or use the List feature to select from a list of current print jobs.
Enter the name of user who owns the print job.
The name of the queue device to be changed or shown.
The name of the print queue to be changed or shown.
Cancels a particular job number in a print queue.
Enter the name of the print queue or use the List feature to select from a list of available print queues.
Displays the status of print jobs in a queue.
Displays the status of print jobs in a queue.
Displays the status of print jobs on all print queues. Use the List feature to select yes or no. If you select yes, do not make entries in the rest of the fields.
Displays the status of all print jobs in the specified queue. Use the List feature to select a specific queue.
Prioritizes a job in the local print queue.
Configures a local printer subsystem, including queues, queue devices, and virtual printers.