First Edition (October 1997)

Trademarks and Acknowledgements

About This Book

Chapter 1. Printers, Print Jobs, and Queues Overview for Users

Chapter 2. Printers, Print Jobs, and Queues for System Administrators

Chapter 3. Spooler Overview

Chapter 4. Printer, Plotter, and Spooler Subsystem Programming

Printer Backend Overview for Programming

Virtual Printer Definitions and Attributes

Printer Colon File Escape Sequences

Printer Colon File Conventions

Example of Print Formatter

Understanding the Interaction between qdaemon and the Backend

Understanding Backend Routines in libqb

Printer Code Page Translation Tables

Printer Attachment Files

Printer Colon File limits Field Operators

Adding Support for Configuring a Network-Attached Printer

Adding a Printer Using the Printer Colon File

Printer-Specific Information

Printer Support

Pass-Through Mode

Viewing, Formatting, or Modifying Virtual Printer Definitions

Modifying the mi, mp, and _d Attributes on a PostScript Queue

How piobe Uses Printer Colon Files

Calculating Page Length Using Printer Colon File Escape Sequences

Calculating Page Width Using Printer Colon File Escape Sequences

Spooler Job Header and Trailer Pages

Modifying the mo Virtual Printer Attribute

Filters

Editing /etc/qconfig

Chapter 5. Troubleshooting the AIX Spooler