About This Book

Printers, Print Jobs, and Queues Overview for Users

Printers, Print Jobs, and Queues for System Administrators

Spooler Overview

Spooler Introduction

Spooler Concepts

Generic Base Operating System Spooler

Spooler Parts

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

Troubleshooting the Base Operating System Spooler

System V Printer Configuration

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

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

Appendix C. Notices

Index