Print Subsystem

Starting with the Solaris 2.6 release, the printing software provides a centralized environment for setting up and managing client access to printers on a network. The Solaris printing software contains these components:

• The print client software, previously only available with the Solstice AdminSuite^TM set of administration tools, provides the ability to make printers available to print clients using a name service.

• Admintool, a graphical user interface used to manage printing on a local system.

• The LP print service commands, a command line interface used to set up and manage printers that also provides functionality above and beyond the other print management tools.

• The Solstice AdminSuite Print Manager, a graphical user interface used to manage printers in a name service environment, is available starting in the Solaris 2.6 release.

See Chapter 11, Managing Printers, Terminals, and Modems, and System Administration Guide, Volume II for more information.

Users can accomplish the same basic tasks using PrintTool or commands in a Shell Tool window.

PrintTool

PrintTool is a software tool available in the Solaris 7 user environment. It provides a graphical user interface within OpenWindows or CDE through which a user can monitor printers and monitor and cancel print jobs.

Command Changes

The following list summarizes command changes:

• lp(1) replaces lpr

• lpstat(1) replaces lpq

• cancel(1) replaces lprm

• troff(1) requires a printer name

• TEX, pscat (C/A/T), and raster image filters are not available in the Solaris 7 environment

The lp service consists of several daemons, or processes, that monitor system work, a hierarchy of configuration files in the /etc/lp directory, and a set of administrative commands.