Guide to Printers and Printing

Deleting a Print Queue

The following procedures apply to both local and remote print queues.

Prerequisites

• For local print queues, the printer must be physically attached to your system.
• For remote print queues, your system must be configured to communicate with the remote print server.
• To delete a queue or queue device, you must have root authority.

Procedure

1. At the system prompt, type wsm, then select Printers.
2. In the Web-based System Manager Printer Queues window, select Queue, Print Processor, or Destination.

   If you select a queue, all copies of devices for that printer are removed. If you select a print processor or destination, only that print processor or destination is removed.

You can also use the rmque, rmquedev, and rmvirprt commands or the SMIT fast path smit rmpq to perform this task.

Note: If the selected queue has only one printer, the queue and its printer are removed. If the queue has more than one printer, only the selected printer is removed.