Guide to Printers and Printing

Changing or Showing Queue Characteristics

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

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 change queue or queue device characteristics, you must have root authority.

Change or Show Print Queue Characteristics

1. At the system prompt, type wsm, then select Devices.
2. In the Web-based System Manager Devices window, select Queue, Print Processor, or Print Destination.
3. Select Properties.
4. View or change the desired attributes.

You can also perform this procedure with the chque, chquedev, lsvirprt, and chvirprt commands or with the SMIT fast path smit chpq.