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System Administration Guide: Solaris Printing

Setting Up Network-Attached Printers by Using Solaris Print Manager

The following table describes each printer attribute to help you determine the information that is needed to set up a network-attached printer with Solaris Print Manager.

Printer Definition 

Description 

Example 

Default Setting 

Required or Optional? 

Printer Name

Name of printer 

laser1

N/A 

Required to install an attached or network printer and to add access to a printer 

Print server

Name of print server 

venus

Use localhost for Printer Server attribute check box selected by default

Required to install an attached or network printer and to add access to a printer — This field is filled in by the tool 

Description

User defined string 

laser printer near breakroom

N/A 

Optional 

Printer Type

Type of printer 

unknown

PostScript

Required to install an attached printer or a network printer without PPD files 

File Content Type

Content to be printed 

any

PostScript

Required to install an attached printer or a network printer without PPD files 

Printer Make

Make of printer 

Lexmark 

N/A 

Required to install an attached printer or a network printer with PPD files 

Printer Model

Model of printer 

Lexmark Optra E312 

N/A 

Required to install an attached printer or a network printer with PPD files 

Printer Driver

Driver that is used by specifying PPD file 

Foomatic/PostScript 

N/A 

Required to install an attached printer or a network printer with PPD files 

Destination

Destination name for the network printer 

For examples, see Selecting the Destination Name (Also Called the Network Printer Access Name)

N/A 

Required to install a network printer 

Protocol

Protocol used to communicate with the printer 

TCP, URI 

BSD

Required to install a network printer  

Fault Notification

Specifies how to notify user of errors 

Mail to superuser

Write to superuser

Optional 

Default Printer 

Identifies the default printer 

N/A 

N/A 

Optional 

Banner Page Drop-Down Menu: 

  • Always Print Banner

  • User Selectable-Default=on

  • Never Print Banner

 

Print banner? 

 

 

Print banner? User selectable option, turned on by default. To turn banner printing off, use lp command with appropriate option.

Never print banner? 

N/A 

 

Banner is printed 

 

 

 

 

Banner is printed unless turned off by using lp command with appropriate option

 

 

Banner is not printed 

Banner page printing turned on by default unless another option is specified within the Solaris Print Manager pull-down menu 

User Access List

List of users allowed to print on the print server 

rimmer,lister

All users can print 

Optional 

ProcedureHow to Add a New Network-Attached Printer by Using Solaris Print Manager

The Use PPD files default attribute in Solaris Print Manage enables you to select the printer make, model, and driver when adding new printer. For more information on this feature, see Administering Printers That Use PPD Files.

This procedure shows you how to add a new network printer by using Solaris Print Manager with the Use PPD files default attribute is selected. To add a new network printer without PPD files, deselect this attribute by removing the checkmark from the check box.

  1. Select the system to be the print server.

  2. Connect the printer to the network. Turn on the power to the printer.

    Consult the printer vendor's installation documentation for information about the hardware switches and cabling requirements.

  3. Start Solaris Print Manager on the print server.

    For instructions, see How to Start Solaris Print Manager.

    In this Solaris release you can specify localhost as the host name in the print system's databases. This modification was added to enable print servers to maintain the same print host name, localhost, independent of the machine host name. This option is the default in Solaris Print Manager. To revert to earlier behavior for this option, deselect the check box. Note that this option applies exclusively to the setup of local print queues. For more information, see Solaris Print Manager Options and Selectable Attributes.

    To set up a local print queue specifying localhost as the host name by using the lpadmin command with the -s option, see How to Use LP Print Commands to Add a Print Queue With localhost Specified as the Host Name.

  4. Select New Network Printer from the Printer menu.

    The New Network Printer window is displayed.

  5. Fill in the required fields with the appropriate information.

    If you need information to complete a field, click the Help button.

    For example, to add a new network printer with PPD files, provide the appropriate information in the following fields:


    Printer Name:
Description:
Printer Make:
Printer Model:
Printer Driver:
Fault Notification:
Destination:
Protocol:
Options:
Default Printer
Always Use Banner
User Access List:

    The Printer Server field is filled in by Solaris Print Manager.

    To add a new network printer without PPD files, provide the appropriate information in the following fields:


    Printer Name:
Description:
Printer Type:
File Contents:
Fault Notification:
destination:
Protocol:
Options:
Default Printer
Always Use Banner
User Access List:

    The Printer Server field is filled in by Solaris Print Manager.

  6. Click OK.

  7. Verify that the printer has been installed. Check for the new printer entry in the Solaris Print Manager main window.

  8. Verify that the printer can print requests.


    $ lp -d printer-name filename

  9. Exit Solaris Print Manager.

    Choose Exit from the Print Manager Menu.