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Guide to Printers and Printing
Adding Plotter Support with 5080
Prerequisites
- The plotter must be physically attached to your system.
- The plotter device must have already been added.
smit Command
The 5080 Attachment Adapter plotter backend is accessible with the enq command after you use this procedure to identify
the plotters.
- At the system prompt, type:
smit pq_mklque
- At the NAME of Queue to Add prompt, type:
plta
to define
serial porta.
- At the NAME of Device to Add prompt, type:
plota
to define
serial port a:
- For BACKEND PROGRAM Pathname, type:
/usr/lib/lpd/plotgbe -gswa 9600
- At the NAME of Queue to Add prompt, enter the following to define serial
port b:
pltb
- At the NAME of Queue to Add prompt, type:
pltb
to define
serial port b.
- For BACKEND PROGRAM Pathname, type:
/usr/lib/lpd/plotgbe -gswa 9600
- Attach the plotter to either port a or port b.
You can also perform this task with the mkque and mkquedev commands. Additional flags are required to add plotter support.
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