Guide to Printers and Printing

Adding a Print Queue Device

Prerequisites

To perform this task, you must have root authority.

Web-based System Manager

1. At the system prompt, type wsm, then select Printers.
2. In the Web-based System Manager Printer Queues window, use the menus to select or type values for required attributes such as the name of the device, the queue where the device will be attached, and the path name for the printer backend program.
3. Provide additional information as prompted.

You can also perform this task with the following commands:

smit mkquedev

or

mkquedev -d QueueName -q QueueName -a Attribute = Value

You may need to use the -a flag several times to fully configure a print queue device.