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Guide to Printers and Printing


Configuring a Printer without Adding a Queue

Use the following procedure if you want to add a printer or plotter, but you do not want to spool print jobs.

Note: If you also want to add print queues when you configure your printer, refer to Initial Printer Configuration .

Prerequisites

The printer or plotter must be physically attached to your system before configuring the printer port. See Configuring a Printer Port.

smit Command

  1. At the system prompt, type:

    smit pdp
    
  2. Select Add a Printer/Plotter.
  3. Provide additional information as prompted.

qprt Command

The following describes how to queue a print job using the qprt command, the enq command, the lp command, or the lpr command. The syntax is the same for all three queuing commands, except that the -d flag (instead of the -P flag) should be specified with the lp command:

Command -PQueueName FileName

where:

QueueName Name of the print queue.
FileName Name of the file to be printed.

The following example demonstrates how to use the qprt command:

qprt -Pfastest myfile

Refer to the individual queuing commands for additional flags that can be specified.


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