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

Spooler Introduction

Spooler Terminology

The Generic Base Operating System Spooler

Spooler Parts

Spooler Data Flow Part I

Spooler Data Flow Part II

Overview of Backend Processing

Virtual Printers and Formatter Filters

/etc/qconfig, the Spooler Configuration File

Summary

Chapter 4. Printer, Plotter, and Spooler Subsystem Programming

Chapter 5. Troubleshooting the Base Operating System Spooler

Chapter 6. System V Printer Configuration

Appendix A. Notices

Index