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Guide to Printers and Printing

Contents

About This Book

Who Should Use This Book

Case-Sensitivity in AIX

Related Publications

Printers, Print Jobs, and Queues Overview for Users

Printer Terminology

Starting a Print Job (qprt Command)

Canceling a Print Job (qcan Command)

Prioritizing a Print Job (qpri Command)

Moving a Print Job to Another Print Queue (qmov Command)

Holding and Releasing a Print Job (qhld Command)

Checking Print Job Status (qchk Command)

Formatting Files for Printing (pr Command)

Printing ASCII Files on a PostScript Printer

Command Summary for Printers, Print Jobs, and Queues

Printers, Print Jobs, and Queues for System Administrators

Printing Processes

Real and Virtual Printers

Local and Remote Printers

Printer Backends

Formatter Filters

Initial Printer Configuration

Configuring a Printer without Adding a Queue

Additional Queue Operations

Adding a Print Queue Device

Adding Plotter Support with 5080

Creating a Plotter Setup File

Adding a Local Printer to an Existing Queue

Adding an ASCII Terminal Printer to an Existing Queue

Adding an HP JetDirect Printer to an Existing Queue

Adding a File to an Existing Queue

Configuring Nonsupported Printers

Printing with Terminal-Attached Printers

Commands and Control Sequences

Terminal-Attached Printing Limitations

Configuring a Printer for an ASCII Display Terminal

Listing Print Queues and Print Queue Devices

Showing Status of Print Queues

Starting and Stopping a Print Queue

Setting the Default Print Queue

Holding and Releasing a Print Job (qhld Command)

Moving a Job between Queues

Scheduling Print Jobs

Changing or Showing Queue Characteristics

Specifying Paper Size

Changing or Showing Printer Connection Characteristics

Changing / Showing Pre-Processing Filters

Deleting a Print Queue

Listing All Supported and Defined Printers

Moving a Printer to Another Port

Changing or Showing Printer Characteristics

Deleting a Printer

Remote Printing Overview

Managing and Using Remote Printers and Queues

Using Remote Host Access for Printing

Using the lpd Remote Subsystem

Showing Status of Printer Server Subsystem

Printer Queuing System Status Conditions

Spooler Overview

Spooler Introduction

Spooler Concepts

Generic Base Operating System Spooler

Spooler Data Flow: Commands and Backend

Spooler Data Flow (enq Command)

Overview of Backend Processing

Virtual Printers and Formatter Filters

/etc/qconfig Spooler Configuration File

Printer, Plotter, and Spooler Subsystem Programming

Printer Backend Overview for Programming

Virtual Printer Definitions and Attributes

Printer Colon File Escape Sequences

Printer Colon File Conventions

Example of Print Formatter

Understanding the Interaction between qdaemon and the Backend

Understanding Backend Routines in libqb

Printer Code Page Translation Tables

Printer Code Page Translation for Multibyte Code Sets

Printer Attachment Files

Operators for Limits Field in the Printer Colon File

Adding a Printer Using the Printer Colon File

Printer-Specific Information

Printer Support

Pass-Through Mode

Viewing, Formatting, or Modifying Virtual Printer Definitions

Modifying the mi, mp, and _d Attributes on a PostScript Queue

How piobe Uses Printer Colon Files

Spooler Job Header and Trailer Pages

Modifying the mo Virtual Printer Attribute

Editing the /etc/qconfig File

Troubleshooting the Base Operating System Spooler

Local Printer Checklist

Inoperative Printer Checklist

Remote Printer Checklist

Adapter Considerations

Resource Considerations

Printing Problems When the var File System is Full

Terminal-Attached Printer Checklist

Considerations for 8-Bit Printer Attached to 7-Bit Interface

qdaemon Checklist

Queuing System Problems

Testing the qdaemon

Testing a Spooler Queue

Copying Spooled Jobs

Cleaning Up and Starting Over

Related Information

System V Printer Configuration

Understanding the Print Service

Customizing Printer Configuration

Providing Filters

PostScript Printers

Configuring Directory-Enabled (LDAP) System V Print on AIX

Related Information

Appendix A. Calculating Page Length Using Printer Colon File Escape Sequences

Why the Stack Language Describing Page Length Works

Appendix B. Calculating Page Width Using Printer Colon File Escape Sequences

Why the Stack Language Describing Page Width Works

Appendix C. Notices

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