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Preface

1.  Introduction to Printing in the Oracle Solaris Operating System

What's New in Printing?

Privilege Requirements for Using Print Commands

PPD File Management Utility

Overview of the Oracle Solaris Printing Architecture

Available Printing Tools and Services

Implementation of the Open Standard Print API

Print Client Commands

Definition of a Print Server and a Print Client

Description of the Internet Printing Protocol

Description of the RFC-1179 Printing Protocol

IPP Compared to the RFC-1179 Protocol

Description of the SMB Protocol

What Is Samba?

Using Printing Protocols in the Oracle Solaris Release

Determining Which Printing Protocol to Use

Selecting the Client-To-Server Network Printing Protocol

Printer URI Formats That Are Supported

Selecting the Server-To-Printer Network Printing Protocol

Description of Solaris Print Manager

Description of the LP Print Service

The LP Print Client-Server Process

Using Print Servers

Using Print Clients

Print Client Process Used by the LP Print Service

How Local Printing Works

How the LP Print Service Administers Files and Schedules Local Print Requests

How Remote Printing Works

Where to Find Printing Tasks

2.  Planning for Printing (Tasks)

3.  Setting Up Network Printing Services (Tasks)

4.  Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using Solaris Print Manager (Tasks)

5.  Setting Up Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)

6.  Administering Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)

7.  Customizing LP Printing Services and Printers (Tasks)

8.  Administering the LP Print Scheduler and Managing Print Requests (Tasks)

9.  Administering Printers on a Network (Tasks)

10.  Administering Character Sets, Filters, Forms, and Fonts (Tasks)

11.  Administering Printers by Using the PPD File Management Utility (Tasks)

12.  Printing in the Oracle Solaris Operating System (Reference)

13.  Troubleshooting Printing Problems in the Oracle Solaris OS (Tasks)

A.  Using the Internet Printing Protocol

Glossary

Index

Description of Solaris Print Manager

Solaris Print Manager is a Java technology-based GUI that enables you to manage local and remote printing configuration. This tool can be used in the files, LDAP, NIS, and NIS+ naming service environments.

To use this tool, you must meet the following requirements:

Solaris Print Manager centralizes printer information when the information is used in conjunction with a naming service. Using a naming service for storing printer configuration information is the preferred method, because a naming service makes printer information available to all systems on the network. This method provides easier printer administration. Solaris Print Manager recognizes existing printer information on print servers, print clients, and in the naming service databases. No conversion tasks are required to use Solaris Print Manager as long as the print clients are running at least the Solaris 2.6 release.

The Solaris Print Manager package is SUNWppm.