Guide to Printers and Printing

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, then select Printers.
2. In the Web-based System Manager Printers window, 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.