Guide to Printers and Printing

Starting and Stopping a Print Queue

Prerequisites

To perform these tasks, you must have root authority.

Starting a Queue

1. At the system prompt, type wsm, then select Printers.
2. In the Web-based System Manager Printer Queues window, select the queue or device that you want to start.
3. Select Start all Devices for Queue to start a queue. Select Start a Specific Device to start a device.

You can also perform this task with the following commands:

smit qstart

OR

qadm -U QueueName

Stopping a Queue

1. At the system prompt, type wsm, then select Printers.
2. In the Web-based System Manager Printer Queues window, select the queue or device that you want to stop.
3. Select Stop all Devices for Queue to stop a queue. Select Stop a Specific Device to stop a device.

You can also perform this task with the following commands:

smit qstop

OR

qadm -D QueueName