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Configuring and Managing Printing in Oracle^® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: July 2014

Configuring and Managing Printing in Oracle^® Solaris 11.2

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Using This Documentation

Chapter 1 Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS (Overview)

Chapter 2 Setting Up Printers by Using CUPS (Tasks)

Setting Up Your Printing Environment to Work With CUPS

How to Set Up Your Printing Environment

Setting Up Your Printing Environment for an Upgrade

Setting Up Printers by Using CUPS Command-Line Utilities (Task Map)

Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS Command-Line Utilities

CUPS Command-Line Utilities

How to Set Up a Printer by Using the lpadmin Command

Setting a Default Printer

How to Verify the Status of Printers

How to Print a File to the Default Printer

How to Delete a Printer and Remove Printer Access

Setting Up Network Printers by Using CUPS Commands

Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using the CUPS Web Browser Interface (Task Map)

Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using the CUPS Web Browser Interface

Requirements for Using the CUPS Web Browser Interface

Troubleshooting Issues With Accessing the CUPS Web Browser Interface

Print Administration Tasks

About the Administration Tab

About the Printers Tab

How to Add a New Printer

About the CUPS Print Manager GUI

Starting CUPS Print Manager

Setting Up Printers by Using CUPS Print Manager (Task Map)

Setting Up Printers by Using CUPS Print Manager

Local Server Configuration

Remote Server Configuration

Selecting a Print Device

How to Set Up a New Local Printer

Chapter 3 Administering Printers by Using CUPS Print Manager (Tasks)

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Setting Up Your Printing Environment for an Upgrade

If you are running unmodified Oracle Solaris 11 Express, CUPS is already the default print service. If you upgrade to Oracle Solaris 11, you do not need to reconfigure any existing print queues by using CUPS. However, if you switched to the LP print service and configured printers by using the lp print commands, you must reconfigure these existing printers by using CUPS after the upgrade.

Caution

Caution - If you are running the LP print service, be sure to back up your /etc/printers.conf file before upgrading, as the upgrade process removes this file.

To determine which print service is enabled on your system, type the following command:

$ /usr/sbin/print-service -q

Reconfigure your existing printers by using any one of the methods that is described in this chapter.

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