Guide to Printers and Printing

Deleting a Printer

This procedure removes a printer from the system. Deleting a printer does not remove any print queues that send print jobs to that printer. See Deleting a Print Queue if you want to also delete the print queues.

Prerequisites

• A printer must have been added (Configuring a Printer without Adding a Queue).
• You must have root authority.

Procedure

1. At the system prompt, type wsm, then select Devices.
2. In the Web-based System Manager Devices window, select the printer object you want to delete.
3. Select Delete from the Selected menu.

You can also perform this task with the SMIT fast path smit rmprt.